Oysters
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Shaping shell through sentiment in sediment,
something like an initiation into blood love
unbroken
//
Across the oceanic Country that is
silver of salt of mother tongue
to the place where you always are
there is a relic beneath the water
which is also a relic in itself
//
I will give you an oyster
to press the softness against your heart,
to sense the ebb of sharp edge against salted skin
and watch the purple rind change under moonlight
//
If a grain of sand has relived the myth
and become a pearl, iridescent
behind shy oyster walls not yet ajar,
then I will extract the myth from the stars
and give you
a pearl,
over and over again,
which is to say
I will give you my heart.