The Dead Heart Comments

Yes, the tongue is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

Ann Sexton. up there with Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. Have her collected works. Can be a tough read at times but always genuine poetry. Never claimed to be a Superwoman. Scorched herself as all true poets should. A great poem indeed. Tom Billsborough

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Yes! It kills without drawing blood. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

Very painful yet an emphatic portrayal of wounded heart that has been at the receiving end for so long. To read this poem is to re-live the turmoil suffered by the poet. How did it die? I said to it, your poems stink like vomit.