Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,

One need not be a house;

The brain has corridors surpassing

Material place.

.......

Far safer through an Abbey gallop,

The stones achase,

Than, moonless, one's own self encounter

In lonesome place.

Jayme is an out and proud Jewish porn star who often wears the Star of David in her films. Not certain why I found this so bizarre and intriguing but I did.

The Red Shoes

I stand in the ring

in the dead city

and tie on the red shoes...

They are not mine.

They are my mother's.

Her mother's before.

Handed down like an heirloom

but hidden like shameful letters.

The house and the street where they belong

are hidden and all the women too,

are hidden...

Anne Sexton