Alice Walker, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

"When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea— on which I cannot walk —and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain."

Alice Walker, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete