Pretty Ones
︎︎︎ Cletus Crow
︎ Mar 5, 2025
"It would be hard to find a writer who dwells more insistently on the pathetic and disgusting aspects of bodily experience..." - James Dickey referring to Anne Sexton.
They give me the tools
but I don't use them
often enough
for deliverance.
Shotgun barrels
seem coated in chocolate.
Lately I'm lost
so I try reading Anne Sexton.
Her feet are beautiful
as Jesus Christ's
adorning
her complete poems.
I have misshapen
fungus ridden dogs.
Still gross shit is human
intrinsic to some confessional verse.
It's like when lights switch on
how putrid corners
of darkness
become less black.
They give me the tools
but I don't use them
often enough
for deliverance.
Shotgun barrels
seem coated in chocolate.
Lately I'm lost
so I try reading Anne Sexton.
Her feet are beautiful
as Jesus Christ's
adorning
her complete poems.
I have misshapen
fungus ridden dogs.
Still gross shit is human
intrinsic to some confessional verse.
It's like when lights switch on
how putrid corners
of darkness
become less black.