Elaine Sexton

The most beautiful thing about a convertible is hair, and the most beautiful thing about hair is its disposition, dead, but alive in the skin in the air, the skin holding on to each strand for dear life, alive in the wind. The most beautiful thing about the wind passing over the skin is sensation, cellular, invisible, metabolic. What is metabolic is life-sustaining, and the most life-sustaining thing I can think of today is decency. And decency is blind, unseen, until it isn’t.