Ruth Stone Explains the Book of the Dead to Sylvia Plath

I did what I could to hush the knot and rope, the truth of gravity.
There are not enough idiomatic expressions to converse flawlessly

With the dead. You have to let some meaning slide. I could not
Waste energy extinguishing the flicker between the possible

Storms divided by the posture of chemicals in the brain
And prizes awarded to the dead after they have moved on

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