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blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.

Denise Levertov
Heart, Thinking, Blue
Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.41, New Directions Publishing
blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.