<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wedding Ring Dance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dance in circles holding<br>the moth of the marriage,<br>thin, sticky, fluttering<br>its skirts, its webs.<br>The moth oozing a tear,<br>or is it a drop of urine?<br>The moth, grinning like a pear,<br>or is it teeth<br>clamping the iron maiden shut?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moth,<br>who is my mother,<br>who is my father,<br>who was my lover,<br>floats airily out of my hands<br>and I dance slower,<br>pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,<br>pulling off the elopement wedding ring,<br>and holding them, clicking them<br>in thumb and forefinger,<br>the indent of twenty-five years,<br>like a tiny rip of a tiny earthquake.<br>Underneath the soil lies the violence,<br>the shift, the crack of continents,<br>the anger,<br>and above only a cut,<br>a half-inch space to stick a pencil in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The finger is scared<br>but it keeps its long numb place.<br>And I keep dancing,<br>a sort of waltz,<br>clicking the two rings,<br>all of a life at its last cough,<br>as I swim through the air of the kitchen,<br>and the same radio plays its songs<br>and I make a small path through them<br>with my bare finger and my funny feet,<br>doing the undoing dance,<br>on April 14th, 1973,<br>letting my history rip itself off me<br>and stepping into<br>something unknown<br>and transparent,<br>but all ten fingers stretched outward,<br>flesh extended as metal<br>waiting for a magnet.</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=345510" data-title="The Wedding Ring Dance de Anne Sexton" data-description="I dance in circles holding the moth of the marriage, thin, sticky, fluttering its skirts, its webs. The moth oozing a tear, or is it a drop of urine? The moth, grinning like a pear, or is it teeth clamping the iron maiden shut? The moth, who is m..."></div> </div> </div>

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