{"id":17174,"date":"2023-04-16T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/?p=17174"},"modified":"2023-06-10T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T11:18:25","slug":"anne-sexton-twadde-psalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/?p=17174","title":{"rendered":"Anne Sexton, Twadde psalm<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nTwadde psalm<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat der in Almachtige is om it swarte ikehout dat my omjout te seingjen.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat der in Almachtige is om de dalmaasjers te seingjen dy\u2019t springe as sinneflekken.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat Emily King, dy\u2019t ik inkeld ken om\u2019t wy goemoarn<\/em> sizze, myn skonken en kont goedwillich besjocht.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat John F. Kennedy my it stellen fan syn dokumintesl\u00faf, fergees fan de Senaat, ferjout.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat myn Tufts-earedoktoraat John Holmes der net ta bringt en stek \u00fat syn brakke gr\u00eaf yn Medford wei syn tonge \u00fat.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat J. Brussel, dy\u2019t skriuwt dat er de tachtich foarby is, profyt hat fan syn moarnsereksje.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat Joy har stive r\u00each wat loskomt en dat de slangen har wervels ferwaarmje.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat Mama Brundig, de goede dokter, nachts r\u00east fynt nei\u2019t ik har namme rop op \u2019e hoeke fan Beacon en Dartmouth.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat dit reade wollen pak, dat jokket, \u00fat kin foar in nylon nachtjapon.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat de man, troch de aaklike mist, myn dochter fynt, grutsk, al is it yn Hawa\u00ef.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat myn dochters de gesichten fan harren dochters mei kninefacht oanreitsje sille.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat myn typmasine trou as altyd net stikken giet, ek al smiet ik him seis jier lyn troch de sikeh\u00fbsseal.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat Kayo, glimkjend \u00fat syn t\u00fanstoel yn Bermuda wei op in foto boppe my, ek glimket om syn namme mids tongen.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat de houten keamer d\u00ear\u2019t ik yn wenje trouhertich mear boeken befettet mei it ferstriken fan de jierren.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat myn klean, myn sokken en myn jassen net langer krimpe.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat myn beide katten mei harren eagen yn lytse blikken s\u00e2namerkes de himel yngean.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat myn wyn frucht draacht.<\/p>\n

Want sy bidt dat har oanreitsjen molke w\u00eaze mei.<\/p>\n

Want sy bidt dat har nacht in smel \u00f4fsletten paad w\u00eaze mei.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat ik trochgean kin mei myn m\u00fble fol te tropjen mei tsiisjirpels.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat Jack Daniels like maklik yn my delgiet as in t\u00fat.<\/p>\n

Want sy bidt dat sy net tebekskrillet by de iensumens fan de ballingskip yn Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Want sy bidt dat sy net tebekskrillet by it deademansgat.<\/p>\n

Want ik bid dat God my fertart.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Second Psalm<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

For I pray there is an Almighty to bless the Piss Oak that surrounds me.<\/p>\n

For I pray that there is an Almighty to bless the Dalmations that jump like sun spots.<\/p>\n

For I pray that Emily King, whom I do not know except to say good morning<\/em>, will observe my legs and fanny with good will.<\/p>\n

For I pray that John F. Kennedy will forgive me for stealing his free-from-the-Senate Manila envelope.<\/p>\n

For I pray that my honorary degree from Tufts is not making John Holmes stick out his tongue from the brackish grave in Medford.<\/p>\n

For I pray that J. Brussel who writes that he is four score and more will prosper over his morning cock.<\/p>\n

For I pray that Joy will unbend from her stone back and that the snakes will heat up her vertebrae.<\/p>\n

For I pray that Mama Brundig, good doctor, will find rest at night after my yelling her name on the corner of Beacon and Dartmouth.<\/p>\n

For I pray that this red wool suit that itches will come off for a nylon nighty.<\/p>\n

For I pray that man, through the awful fog, will find my daughter proud although in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

For I pray that my daughters will touch the faces of their daughters with bunny fur.<\/p>\n

For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.<\/p>\n

For I pray that Kayo who smiles from the photo above me from his lawn chair in Bermuda will smile at his name among tongues.<\/p>\n

For I pray that the wooden room I live in will faithfully hold more books as the years pass.<\/p>\n

For I pray that my apparel, my socks and my coats will not shrink any longer.<\/p>\n

For I pray my two cats will enter heaven carrying their eyes in little tin sand pails.<\/p>\n

For I pray that my wine will fatten.<\/p>\n

For she prays that her touch will be milk.<\/p>\n

For she prays that her night will be a small closed path.<\/p>\n

For I pray that I may continue to stuff cheese potatoes in my mouth.<\/p>\n

For I pray that Jack Daniels will go down as easily as a kiss.<\/p>\n

For she prays that she will not cringe at the loneliness of the exile in Hamilton.<\/p>\n

For she prays that she will not cringe at the death hole.<\/p>\n

For I pray that God will digest me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

O Ye Tongues<\/em> [II<\/small>], \u00fat The Death Notebooks<\/em>, 1974<\/p>\n

Piss Oak<\/b> \u2013 Quercus velutina<\/em>, ornaris oantsjut as black oak<\/em> of yellow oak<\/em>. As it hout fan dizze Amerikaanske beamsoart dr\u00fbge of ferbr\u00e2nd wurdt, jout it in ammoniaklucht \u00f4f, d\u00earfandinne de bynamme piss oak<\/em>.
\nTufts<\/b> \u2013 Yn 1970 krige Anne Sexton in earedoktoraat fan Tufts University, Greater Boston.
\nJohn Holmes<\/b> \u2013 De Amerikaanske dichter John Holmes (1904\u20131962) wie heechlearaar Ingelsk oan Tufts University en hold workshops po\u00ebzy d\u00ear\u2019t Sexton fan 1957 \u00f4f oan meidie. Holmes rette har yn in brief \u00fat 1959 \u00f4f har gedichten te publisearjen, om\u2019t se inkeld oer harsels gongen en de l\u00eazer neat te bieden hienen (Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton. A biography<\/em>, Boston 1991, s. 98, 100; Gail Crowther, Three-martini afternoons at the Ritz. The rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton<\/em>, New York 2021, s. 15). Sexton reagearre mei it gedicht \u2018For John, Who Begs Me Not to Enquire Further\u2019 en naam dat op yn har deb\u00fatbondel To bedlam and part way back<\/em> (1960). Holmes leit begroeven op Medford\u2019s Oak Grove Cemetery.
\nJ. Brussel<\/b> \u2013 Wierskynlik Jacob R. Brussel (1899\u20131979), in New Yorkse antikwaar en \u00fatjouwer, dy\u2019t benammen eroatyske en pornografyske boeken \u00fatjoech, mar ek wurkjes as One hundred years of American humor<\/em> (1945), troch himsels gearstald \u00fbnder de namme J. Brussel.
\nJoy<\/b> \u2013 Joyce Ladd Sexton (1955), ropnamme Joy, de twadde dochter fan Anne en Kayo Sexton.
\nMama Brundig<\/b> \u2013 Martha Brunner-Orne (1895\u20131982), Anne Sexton har earste psychiater en de mem fan har twadde psychiater, Martin Theodore Orne. Martha Brunner wie berne yn Wenen, Eastenryk. \u2018Mama Brundig\u2019 komt ek foar yn it gedicht \u2018The Frog Prince\u2019.
\nKayo<\/b> \u2013 Ropnamme fan Anne har echtgenoat Alfred Muller Sexton II (1928\u20132012).
\nJack Daniels<\/b> \u2013 Whiskey makke troch de Jack Daniel Distillery yn Lynchburg, Tennessee, oprjochte yn 1875 troch Jasper Newton Daniel.
\nHamilton<\/b> \u2013 Nei harren houlik yn 1948 f\u00fbnen Anne en Kayo \u00fbnderdak yn it molkfeebedriuw fan Reg Scott yn it stedsje Hamilton, New York, yn de buert fan Syracuse. Kayo folge d\u00ear in foaroplieding medisinen oan de Colgate University. \u2018We lived with Reg and I did the laundry, washing the sour milk overalls\u2019, skreau Anne d\u00ear letter oer yn in brief (Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton. A biography<\/em>, Boston 1991, s. 23).<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Twadde psalm Want ik bid dat der in Almachtige is om it swarte ikehout dat my omjout te seingjen. Want ik bid dat der in Almachtige is om de dalmaasjers te seingjen dy\u2019t springe as sinneflekken. Want ik bid … Fierder l\u00eaze →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1176,1217,1218,1219,1220,1221,1222],"class_list":["post-17174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anne-sexton","tag-anne-sexton","tag-john-holmes","tag-jacob-r-brussel","tag-martha-brunner-orne","tag-martin-theodore-orne","tag-alfred-muller-sexton-ii","tag-reg-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17296,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions\/17296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.konsenylje.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}