Necklace (1)
The necklace of Ariel
was ground from shell
Thick with oil
it coughed up on the shore
with the body of a gull
It carried the elusive scale
a hook diving to the last gill
a flag of
gristle holding
to a burr
of iron
And the
necklace opened
from its seaweed
shawl
with a
rainbow of paua
spilling
from unlikely cream
the edge of
oyster
diminishing
the pearl
And
feathers lay around
like a duty
crown
and seaweed
sank in green
for envy only
Here there
is no
anthropomorphic
song
no castanet
of clam
no
sidewards crab fawning
against the
rotting skirt
no exultant
bird to call
over the
dead other
But the
echo from a conch
feigning
the nearer sea
igniting in
its rainbow
of sad ablutions
evocative.
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