Broken Whelk
There’s always beauty
even in broken things.
This small whelk once held
an ocean in its chambers
before that same sea
battered down its walls
the occupant, long ago
gone, only its ghost haunts
the emptiness, the shell
lying on the shore shows
its whorls, jaggedness
smoothed with polish
of time. Morning glistens
inside the glossy pearl
white—all that is left
of its soul.
Image credit: The sea-worn whelk, collected by Finn Bille on Sanibel Island, FL, and photographed & post-processed using Toolwiz Photos with Prismart filter and with a Van Gogh effect by John C. Mannone.
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