NaPoWriMo Prompt 26

Ariel (Sylvia Plath - Erased Jenny Luddington)

Stasis  
        the substanceless blue
Pour


How     we grow,
        heels and knees!

                             sister

               I cannot catch,


Berries      dark


Black sweet      mouthfuls,

Something else

                             air ---
Thighs, hair;
                            heels.

White



Foam          a glitter of seas.
The child's cry


And I
Am

The dew
              at one with the

Eye,              of morning



  







Ariel (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.