Diagonal Lines

Purple seashells from the Pacific Ocean and
orange seashells from the Atlantic Ocean—
neatly arranged on the studio work table.

Here is a connection circulating like arrows on a map.
Here are the sparkles in the scrubbed and tumbled
exoskeletons.

Calcium carbonate basic to all snails and bivalves
across the thin Goldilocks zone of the blue planet.
The water croons and seduces. We listen.

[RK, 3/28/21]