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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Sylvia Plath</span></h3>
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Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.

God's lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!--The furrow

Splits and passes, sister to
The brown arc
Of the neck I cannot catch,

Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Hooks----

Black sweet blood mouthfuls,
Shadows.
Something else

Hauls me through air----
Thighs, hair;
Flakes from my heels.

White
Godiva, I unpeel----
Dead hands, dead stringencies.

And now I
Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas.
The child's cry

Melts in the wall.
And I 
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies,
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning.</span></span></td></tr>
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Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Ariel by Sylvia Plath Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God's lioness, How one we grow...