Saturday 26 January 2019

Chalcedony (January)


[For Elizabeth Wade] Whether the January Family were two-faced double-crossers or just misunderstood, all we have now are their chalcedony cameos. Agate, blood-red fire one day, stone cold the next. Cornelian has a permanent brown smell under his Roman nose. Cousin Carnelian is a pseudomorph if ever there was one. Chrysoprase though is a gem, I will have nothing said against her. And Heliotrope seems okay, though a bit dotty. Aventurine’s gorgeous. The Onyx side of the Family are somewhat black-and-white, though with Sardonyx, what’s not to like? Even their names are stand-ins, given we’ve nothing else to go on.

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