The hippopotamus
(Water horse, nothing like)
Squats on the drowned lion
Caught eating human heads
Beside the lake of fire.
Scared, I'm afraid, I think
Of the bone eater, god
Ungendered of millions.
Fright, pain, grief, great reverence,
Crocodilian reference
To the saints of saffron,
Dancing by headwaters
Of civilizations
Struck by dread of justice
And holding so many
Breaths by which justice thrives.
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