I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. --From the poem "Elm", written 19 April 1962. (Sylvia Plath)

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. --From the poem "Elm", written 19 April 1962.

Sylvia Plath

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