"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God."
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Source: Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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