<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345509" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Waiting Head</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I really am walking with ordinary habit <br>past the same rest home on the same local street <br>and see another waiting head at that upper front window, <br>just as she would always sit, <br>watching for anyone from her wooden seat, <br>then anything can be true. I only know <br>how each night she wrote in her leather books <br>that no one came. Surely I remember the hooks <br>of her fingers curled on mine, though even now <br>will not admit the times I did avoid this street, <br>where she lived on and on like a bleached fig <br>and forgot us anyhow; <br>visiting the pulp of her kiss, bending to repeat <br>each favor, trying to comb out her mossy wig <br>and forcing love to last. Now she is always dead <br>and the leather books are mine. Today I see the head <br>move, like some pitted angel, in that high window. <br>What is the waiting head doing? It looks the same. <br>Will it lean forward as I turn to go? <br>I think I hear it call to me below </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but no one came no one came<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Sexton">Anne Sexton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345509" data-title="The Waiting Head de Anne Sexton" data-description="If I really am walking with ordinary habit past the same rest home on the same local street and see another waiting head at that upper front window, just as she would always sit, watching for anyone from her wooden seat, then anything can be ..."></div> </div> </div>

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