Predacity
water-cobbled rocks
of white and gray
pummeled by time,
hewn round by the licking caress
of water's rasping tongue,
dressed in moss
green and tender, baby soft;
dark eddys
where never sun has smiled
beneath a ledge,
black and forbidding,
a murky void
full of danger,
it is a den of darkness,
and in it, silvery-sided, ivory-toothed,
and jewel-eyed, he waits to strike,
he is the deadly, dreadful pike.
1976
of white and gray
pummeled by time,
hewn round by the licking caress
of water's rasping tongue,
dressed in moss
green and tender, baby soft;
dark eddys
where never sun has smiled
beneath a ledge,
black and forbidding,
a murky void
full of danger,
it is a den of darkness,
and in it, silvery-sided, ivory-toothed,
and jewel-eyed, he waits to strike,
he is the deadly, dreadful pike.
1976
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