Delicate wood - oyster white.
Not brown, but white. Not oyster, but wood.
Like pearls of milk, and the milk of pearls, it lay behind a rose.
An oyster, not rose but white. Not mother, but pearl. Mother of pearl.
I am filled with white. I journey inside for the pearl.
My mother’s jewelry box.
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