Image of an Oyster

They found a pearl that weighs 34 kilos.

The world’s largest biggest.

It weighs as much as an

Olympic gymnast or a

Wheel of parmesan cheese.

More than the cursed pearl

Kino cast into the sea.

It has the beauty of neither,

This mammoth, misshapen thing,

Nor the iridescent skin of

A perfect white marble

On a string of perfect white marbles

Threaded by a strand of silver

That draws your eye to the

Alabaster nape of a lover’s neck.

Where she lifts strands of her silken hair

And waits

For you to close the clasp.