"Pearlamic Quarantine,
Macaulay Oyster
Battles Outbreak
Home Alone
In Self Isolation"

(I know, cheesiest title you may ever see being given to a poem lol)

A pearl is a biological
inadvertent form of organic alchemy
as the result
of a parasitic entity
infiltrating an oyster's protective shell
setting off it's survivability dictated contingency plan,
in which alarms go off
in the form of a defensive mechanism
initiating successive secretions of layers of fluid
to coat the irritant
in the oyster's...