The September 2007 poetry project consists of writing one poem per day in the month of September and putting it up for public consumption regardless of its state of completion.

Poem 24. Pearl

If you would give me a chance, I would pry open your heart,

And show you that there are pearls inside.

Yellow, pink slightly irregular because they are real,

not cultured, not molded, not made on a wheel.

The sand caught inside your heart scratched

the softest parts and bled you from within.

You refuse to open now, so all I can do is hold you in my hand,

closed as you are.

©Rachel Levine 2007