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@annestgwilym.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:47 AM

'Poppies in October', by Sylvia Plath. I only wish I could write like this.

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Poppies in October by Sylvia Plath

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly —

A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky

Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.

O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.Image of poppies in a field, blue sky and clouds.
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