poetry project 365 (2009)

Day 142: My Demon

Day 142: My Demon


Oh demon within,
I am afraid and seldom put my hand up
to my mouth and stitch it up
covering you, smothering you
from the public voyeury eyes
of my typewriter keys.
If I should pawn you,
what bullion would they give for you,
what pennies, swimming in their copper kisses
what bird on its way to perishing?


from “Demon” — Anne Sexton

[Project 365]