<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389925" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self-Portrait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was not a slender woman,<br>but her skin was milk<br>mixed in with strawberry jam<br>& between her legs the word purple was born<br>& her hair was the color of wheat & yellow butter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her eyes were dark as the North Atlantic sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She learned the untranslatable words of dawn.<br>She studied her own fear & wrote its verses.<br>She used the hole in her heart to play wind-music.<br>She built her book-houses over her empty cellar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She nursed on the muse at first,<br>then became her own mother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389925" data-title="Self-Portrait de Erica Jong" data-description="She was not a slender woman, but her skin was milk mixed in with strawberry jam & between her legs the word purple was born & her hair was the color of wheat & yellow butter. Her eyes were dark as the North Atlantic sea. She learned the untransl..."></div> </div> </div>

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