The red mouth rips wide open in a grin
To let the murky ocean in.
Lap the green water from cupped hands
Yellowed with callouses.
Dandelion roots hide in snake pits between
The cool, soft, breathing, legless
Bodies dreaming of ostrich eggs.
Rusted falcons clasp black centipedes
over jungle covered calderas.
Thrashing in their death throes,
Howling like pipe organs,
The centipedes turn blue and fall through
The verdant canopy.
Released from iron talons,
They die upon the decaying earth.
Eaten by ants.
Eaten by worms.
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