I can grow thirteen feet long if I want
I stay in the Amazon where I love to hunt
I am the biggest crocodilian in the present day
Yes, I am a black caiman, slithering in the fray
One woman guessed I was a blue whale, a silly guess.
The only blue whale I know is ninety-eight feet long; I call her Tess.
I can grow thirteen feet long if I want
I stay in the Amazon where I love to hunt
I am the biggest crocodilian in the present day
Yes, I am a black caiman, slithering in the fray
One woman guessed I was a blue whale, a silly guess.
The only blue whale I know is ninety-eight feet long; I call her Tess.
I can grow thirteen feet long if I want
I stay in the Amazon where I love to hunt
I am the biggest crocodilian in the present day
Yes, I am a black caiman, slithering in the fray
One woman guessed I was a blue whale, a silly guess.
The only blue whale I know is ninety-eight feet long; I call her Tess.
The mind is a long walk home,
dinosaurs unnamable
litter the green turf
of our travels.
Reptiles shrink to birds,
the larger birds collapse like balloons
eventually running out of sky.
Lizards rest in the top nest
of every reaching spine.
Some imagine waking up
still travelling with Walt Whitman
and other old guys,
all those long-winded words
sticking to boots
as the company plods forward,
while a slow-eyed crocodilian
lifts one bejeweled and crusty eyelid
watching for signs of new life.
Space returns to the surface
of the world
ancient and rootless
spreading an alien gossip
& streaking unmasked
through Area 51.
We are not home yet,
we are the infants of lumbering mammals,
more nimble and able
to see over mountain tops.
Let us walk the way the pygmies do,
leaving no shadows for the sun to eat,
trusting only in one naked thought
after another,
yet and all, still able
to pilfer the horizons of giants,
as if home where just one more
warming ice age away.
Crocodilian
Mendaciously making sense.
Mealy-mouthed verbal evidence.
How many billion
More humans to bring it down?
Base hybrid . Reptillian brain
Alienistic ignorance
Secrets Veiled all around.
All we experience
And everything we can see
Has led us through dimensional consequence
Perception beyond reality
still water beckons
drink deep of my reflection
danger lurks elsewhere
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