leaving this chamber
—size of a demitasse—
open to reveal
a shocking, Giotto blue.
Though it smells
of seaweed and ruin,
this little traveling case
comes with such lavish lining!
Imagine breathing
surrounded by
the brilliant rinse
of summer's firmament.
What color is
the underside of skin?
Not so bad, to die,
if we could be opened
into this—
This can be seen as a question that has a meaning outside of the green crab. The speaker here asks the reader to look beyond someone’s skin and view them based on who they are as a person.
A Green Crab’s Shell