Not quite the sea

Unable to get out today but longing for the sea so took inspiration from my bathroom where all manner of shells and seaside objects end up!

'Reaching down arm-deep into bright water
I gathered on white sand under waves
Shells, drifted up on beaches where I alone
Inhabit a finite world of years and days.
I reached my arm down a myriad years
To gather treasure from the yester-milliennial sea-floor,
Held in my fingers forms shaped on the day of creation'

from Shells by Kathleen Raine