Bishop Sweeney

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    O falling fire and piercing cry
    and panic, and a weak mailed fist
    clenched ignorant against the sky!
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    Now Sweeney phones from London, W. 2,
    saying, Martyr, my religion is love, is you.
    Be seated, my Sweeney, my invisible fan.
    Surely the words will continue, for that’s
    what’s left that’s true.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)