mockingbird

mock·ing·bird (mkng-bûrd) n.

A gray and white bird of the southern and eastern United States, noted for mimicking the sounds of other birds and insects.

Witch Burning

In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks.

A thicket of shadows is a poor coat. I inhabit

The wax image of myself, a doll’s body.

Sickness begins here: I am the dartboard for witches.

Only the devil can eat teh devil out.

In the month of red leaves I climb to a bed of fire.

It is easy to…

-Sylvia Plath