Shelter

 

Growth rings inscribe
inside each shell
the markers of
a former life

This shell, my skin,
outers a life
still stretched
still lived in.

from Shell(Insomniac Press, 2007), copyright Olive Senior 2007, used by permission of the author and the publisher.

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