“Summer” Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (1917-18)

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“Said the Poet to the Analyst” Anne Sexton

The Wrong Label

There is nothing here that makes me think
of summer.

If “words are like labels, or coins, or better,
like swarming bees,” this mis-mash of colors

forms and angles evokes the feel of disharmony.
There is nothing here that makes me think of coins

or swarming bees either. When words do not fit
there is a more than disharmony, there is the breakdown
of trust.