"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter."
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Source: Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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