Greenlanded Sharks
Sulk six hundred years
beneath sea ice and snow
Their thousand cold glass eyes
thinking other than we know

Pushing off towards Baffin Bay
Along the glacial way
I thought I spied a pair of eyes,
darkly sunken though they lay

And are you not some Greenland shark,
As ancient as the day
Columbus dragged these new old worlds
across the seas to play?

In all these times ‘cross every clime,
the flames of change did range.
You drifted gaunt and hungry,
‘most frozen, but not quite

And now at last your hour comes,
you scarcely mark the passing
A seeking slides, desire’s binds unfastened
And stillness fills the belly
sinking through the deep

Copyright: AM Watson

Removed: and every guile through every while is other than we know