Clean Your Bones and Catch Some R & R

Bones are surprisigly 

difficult to keep clean,

turns out white wasn't 

the best choice for beings

without skin. A search

brought me years ago 

to a distant island spa 

for bones- a pink lake

surrounded by a rim

of sand for scraping feet

and a dense woodland

of paperbark trees 

against which to rub.

Salt crusts cover

the shoreline and whiten 

stained bones. 

The flattering pink color

might come from 

organisms 

(that don't harm) 

or might arise from a dye,

but we choose not to use 

that word, what with it being 

a spa. Pink draws 

the ladies though. They carry

home clear pink water

in necklace amulets

that catch the interest

of friends and spread

the word. Bones

worldwide come. 

The bright pink
lends an appropriate

other- worldly air, the pratical

aspects of bone care

are tended to while

peer to peer contact

is facilitated. A whole 

package solution.

For Hannah at Real Toads who has us writing about Lake Hillier, a bubble gum pink lake that sparked  this (much) lighter tone in my bone poems series.