Don’t ask me how my trip went

Don’t ask me what I bought

Instead, let me tell you what I saw.

While walking on the main street

The heart of the city

Behold, there stood a storefront

With bold sign in the big gigantic letter

P-E-R-I-W-I-N-K-L-E

But a symbol of a flower represented the I

Beside it was a gumboot skyscraper

Its needle peak is seen among the cloud

The store though different

Stood magnificent

Showing an alluring art

Of the unseen and the unthinkable

Though unexpected but amazing

The myriad flowers were arranged in a periwinkle shell

A shell colored in haste but stylishly beautiful

Gone were the slimy slime

Or the snail host

For the shell preferred the flowers

To the snails.