Crocodilian, Shining Bright
written by: Michael R. Burch
Crocodilian, shining bright,
In the Nile by pale moonlight,
What immortal hand or eye
Dared frame your fearful symmetry?
In what veiling depths do you
now glide like death—unerring, true
to your strange nature, till you rise
to awe, dismember, terrorize?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of your heart?
And when your heart began to beat,
What dread hand? (& will we meet?)
What great hammer forged the chain
Of your strange armor? What cruel brain
imagined jaws so strong, so cruel,
so full of teeth and bloody drool?
When the stars’ immaculate light
First brushed you on that sixth dark night,
Did he who formed you laugh to see
Your teeth agleam, your eye on me?
Crocodilian, shining bright,
In the Nile by pale moonlight,
What immortal hand or eye
Dared frame your fearful symmetry?
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