Sepiia

Cuttlebones are found in budgie cages        
where pretty-polly is seen pecking one,        
used as gem polisher down the ages        
and came from some poor cuttlefish's tum.        
       
That beastie gave up this bone with its ghost        
and pretty-pollies benefit from this,        
Cephalopod, with eight arms, at the most,        
swimming oceans, a mollusc, not a fish...        
       
My grandmother would've known well, such stuff,        
their education was wide and thorough,  
but perhaps wondered how life vanished, pooooft!!        
as she looks far past for her Grandmother...        
       
Just as Gran's photo gave me pause to think        
Sepia tinted, with cuttlefish ink.