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For i could not read or speak and on the long nights i could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

-Anne Sexton

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For I Could Not Read Or Speak

Anne Sexton

For i could not read or speak and on the long nights i could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

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There was just one moon. that familiar, yellow, solitary moon. the same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. the same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. the moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. that moon.

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There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. if the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. the street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. but in a certain drama, like some of the ones i've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. and in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.

What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? it was only a big circle of light. and the dark of the moon was only darkness. but halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.

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