spinster

bir sylvia plath şiiri.


now this particular girl
during a ceremonious april walk
with her latest suitor
found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck
by the birds’ irregular babel
and the leaves’ litter.

by this tumult afflicted, she
observed her lover’s gestures unbalance the air,
his gait stray uneven
through a rank wilderness of fern and flower;
she judged petals in disarray,
the whole season, sloven.

how she longed for winter then! --
scrupulously austere in its order
of white and black
ice and rock; each sentiment within border,
and heart’s frosty discipline
exact as a snowflake.

but here -- a burgeoning
unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits
into vulgar motley --
a treason not to be borne; let idiots
reel giddy in bedlam spring:
she withdrew neatly.

and round her house she set
such a barricade of barb and check
against mutinous weather
as no mere insurgent man could hope to break
with curse, fist, threat
or love, either.

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