HAPPY 89th BIRTHDAY, my dearest Sylvia! ♥ RIP!(27 October 1932, Boston, USA – 11 Februa

HAPPY 89th BIRTHDAY, my dearest Sylvia! ♥ RIP!(27 October 1932, Boston, USA – 11 February 1963, London, UK)—POPPIES IN OCTOBER Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.Nor the woman in the ambulanceWhose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly —A gift, a love giftUtterly unasked forBy a skyPalely and flamilyIgniting its carbon monoxides, by eyesDulled to a halt under bowlers.O my God, what am IThat these late mouths should cry openIn a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers. –Sylvia Plath, written 27 October 1962, in: Ariel, 1965—Photo credits: Sylvia Plath photographed by studio photogapher Eric Stahlberg in Northampton, Massachusetts during her final months as a student at Smith College in May 1955This and two other photographs by Stahlberg were sold at the Sotheby’s auction “Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, property of Frieda Hughes” in July 2021 for 1,764GBP.Image source: https://www.sothebys.com/ -- source link

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