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It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

Anne Sexton
Religious, Morning, Heart
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious