"Briar Rose" is the classic fairytale of Sleeping Beauty come to life. And what a life it is taken from her family, hidden way from her destine. Only for fate to come and intervene. The story tells of fairies and prophecies. The author Anne Sexton, speaks of an insomniac laying awake at night in "Briar Rose" Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into a hypnotist's trance, into a spirit …
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…forward I was forced backward I was passed from hand to hand like a bowl of fruit. Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? There's another kind of prison, It's not the prince at all, but the father, drunkenly bent over my bed, circling the abyss like a shark, my father thick upon me like a sleeping jellyfish What voyage this, girl? God help - this life after death?