PAD Day 19: Weird Shells and Colors

Today's prompts from Poetic Asides and NaPoWriMo: (1) Write a "color" poem, with a color as the title, and (2) write a poem that uses at least one name from a list of unusual names for seashells.  (You can see the list here.) As a personal challenge, I tried to cram as many of the phrases from that list as possible and managed to use eleven of them (with some minor variations).  What I ended up with is a rather surreal poem, but here it is - the shell names I used are underlined:

Periwinkle

Come walk on the calcified beach with me

tonight. Be sure to wear the resurrected pearls

from your Lazarus jewel box.  Come barefoot

so we might wade in the incidental surf.

After awhile, take off your Peruvian hat,

that heavy bonnet with the Andean peak,

and I will remove my triangular nutmeg

colonial cap, that ghastly miter.

Then pull off your seaweed shift over

your shoulder blades, sea cat, and shake out

your strawberry top of curly red hair, 

while I slip off my shirt of Spanish moss. 

Sparse doves will flash in the periwinkle sky 

as we swim out to the breakers professing love, 

unequal and bittersweet, and drink light from that 

false cup-and-saucer, the bleeding, incised moon.