This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mi…

Sylvia Plath
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This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, p.153, Faber & Faber
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