Lyrics Ariel: No. 5, Lady Lazarus - Sylvia Plath, Phyllis Curtin, Joseph Rabbai

Ariel: No. 5, Lady Lazarus

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.
God’s lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!—The furrow
Splits and passes, sister to The brown arc
Of the neck I cannot catch,
Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Black sweet blood mouthfuls,
Shadows.
Something else
Hauls me through air—
Thighs, hair;
Flakes from my heels.
White
Godiva, I unpeel—
Dead hands, dead stringencies.
And now I Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas.
The child’s cry
Melts in the wall.
And I Am the arrow,
The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red
Eye, the cauldron of morning.