Ariel

By one of my favourite poets: Sylvia Plath

Stasis in darkness
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.

God's lioness
How one we grow
Pivot of heels and knees! - The furrow

Splits and passes, sister to
The brown arc
Of the neck I cannot catch.

Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Hooks -

Black sweet blood mouthfuls
Shadows
Something else.

Hauls me through air -
Thighs, hair
Flakes from my heels.

White
Godiva, I unpeel -
Dead hands, dead stringencies.

And now I
Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas
The child's cry.

Melts in the wall
And I
Am the arrow.

The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red.

Eye, the cauldron of morning.