1983, Ted Hughes, "Snow Song" (poem), in The Achievement of Ted Hughes (ed. by Keith Sagar, published by Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 335):
In skin too small for his bones / With a twist of rotten grass in his gut / Firstman wept. / And the Mother Of All Things wept. / And the Fox laughed under the earth. / Then the Mother Of All Things swelled and the bloodsea split / Its plenty for man's hunger. / But the Fox gripped shut her belly. / He seemed to be licking a stone. / His fangs gripped shut her belly. / He seemed to be crunching a tomtit / Or gnawing at a piece of old leather.
1996 (published), Lance Jeffers, "Nina Simone" (poem), in The Second Set, Vol. 2: The Jazz Poetry Anthology (ed. by Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa, published by Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
this brown woman's voice, / this blackwheat voice / this blackthigh voice / this blackbreast voice: / […] / Now she stands before a microphone and / feels the echoes of her slavery past : / an ache across her torso and a desolating laugh : / she throws back her head to sing and her teeth whiten / the bloodsea of her mouth.
2005 September 1, Ami Sands Brodoff, Bloodknots, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN:
I wondered how the water must have felt to him as his heart gave out, barely there, like the fluids of his own body, as he floated and bobbed, an organ in the bloodsea. I sat down on the cold, hard ground of our cave, under the low-lying pine branches. Scratching with my nails, I tried to dig a hollow[…]
