"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything."
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Source: Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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