As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
Anne SextonThey [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
Anne SextonDo you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
Anne Sexton