Reblogged from Jane Dougherty Writes:

I missed the boat to sign up to Paul Brooke's April poetry challenge, but I'm following his ekphrastic prompts. They are glorious! This poem is drawn from all three of them. You can see the paintings and the responses here.

Shells

Such colours, deep as prisms,
refracted through seashells
and a thousand pools of still water.

Architectural constructs, petal-soft,
unfurling with no mechanism…

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