“Plath/Hughes” by Dan Grossman

Attribution: Megalit, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Plath/Hughes

I got into it with a bunch of people on Threads
who were going after Ted Hughes
as if he were the one who turned on the gas for Sylvia
while their children were in the next room. 

I know that people linked together 
by love and trauma sometimes do bad things 
to each other; their children are lucky 
to survive. I'm glad their daughter survived 

and went on to write many books. I will 
continue to be inspired by Frieda 
and her parents—housing their books 

on my shelves—while those incited 
by my Threads might write books attacking Ted.
It's not like it hasn't been done already