Shelling by Thomas Lynch
Darling, I bring you these
oddments from a far shoreline.
They have borne the deep and shallow,
light and dark,
earth and air and sea,
some living things, some dead,
some things yet to be.
And now, here,
precious among the elements,
my love, your gaze. Art by Émile Chambon
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