"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it."
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Source: Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”
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