04/15/05

The golden chain around her neck met at an apex nestled in the soft cleft of her bosom. Suspended from a single golden filigree ring was a ruby the size of a jay’s egg, delicately carved into the likeness of a sensual and bursting pomegranate. And in the golden rays of the setting sun, the ivory skin of her heaving breasts was bathed in an eerie blood-reed hue.