Poppies in October
Even the sun-clouds this morning
cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms
through her coat so astoundingly --
A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky
Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.
O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost,
in a dawn of cornflowers.
Sylvia Plath
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