Shelter

Telephone-like, thorny, crabbish, icy cold
Topaz orange, yellowy pink
Bronzy and sun-like I am.

Grenade-shaped but also a peach.
Strong and unswallowable.

Hand-like and branchy.
Smooth, lumpy, velvety and spiky.

Diamond outline and wavy sea.
Salty, sandy, swooshy
With spines like a porcupine.

As sharp as shark's teeth
A spiky frisbee about to land
A sea monster.

Accompanying a phantom snail
Sheltering a silent snail
Forever safe.