all the dead dears

• bir sylvia plath şiiri:
  
  in the archæological museum in cambridge is a stone
  coffin of the fourth century a.d. containing the skeletons
  of a woman, a mouse and a shrew. the ankle-bone of the
  woman has been slightly gnawed.
  
  rigged poker -stiff on her back
  with a granite grin
  this antique museum-cased lady
  lies, companioned by the gimcrack
  relics of a mouse and a shrew
  that battened for a day on her ankle-bone.
  
  these three, unmasked now, bear
  dry witness
  to the gross eating game
  we'd wink at if we didn't hear
  stars grinding, crumb by crumb,
  our own grist down to its bony face.
  
  how they grip us through think and thick,
  these barnacle dead!
  this lady here's no kin
  of mine, yet kin she is: she'll suck
  blood and whistle my narrow clean
  to prove it. as i think now of her hand,
  
  from the mercury-backed glass
  mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother
  reach hag hands to haul me in,
  and an image looms under the fishpond surface
  where the daft father went down
  with orange duck-feet winnowing this hair ---
  
  all the long gone darlings: they
  get back, though, soon,
  soon: be it by wakes, weddings,
  childbirths or a family barbecue:
  any touch, taste, tang's
  fit for those outlaws to ride home on,
  
  and to sanctuary: usurping the armchair
  between tick
  and tack of the clock, until we go,
  each skulled-and-crossboned gulliver
  riddled with ghosts, to lie
  deadlocked with them, taking roots as cradles rock.
• ["all the dead dears"
  bayan meehan-zengin-çeşnili yorkshire'da geçen lehçe öyküsü. (uğultulu tepeler arka planında) - ölü olanların hayaletlerinin altıncı hisleri kuvvetli olan kadın üzerindeki güçlü etkisine dair. başla - "bir keresinde bir melek gördüm" - "kız kardeşim miriam" - idam, zatürreeden ölüm (cinayeti kasteden), deli kuzenler, iyi bir ölü - hastane koğuşunda savaş fotoğrafı - hasır fötr şapkalar ve gümüş topuzlu bastonlarla bir hanım evladı fotoğrafı - "bacağı koptu. öldürüldü. o ölü ve ölü."] sylvia plath - the journals of sylvia plath