AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

as frogs leap forever
into blue terror
they died
out of home
after spreading
out of home
and came back with Spaniards
into alien urges
foamed, went mad with déjà vu
then madder with joy
as camels humped it up the coast
coated a certain permafrost carpet in
to-be-Alaska with bones
and never looked back
now reunited with cousin camelid
llamas in the Cama [camel/lama]
breeding hopes feverish
for meat yield
planktonic
whirlpool
lifeforms
tirade
herbfested
the Marine sights
the dromedary under
the dignitary.
flash
and thinks, of Christmas,
the older cousins.
flash of silver,
sliver of flesh, wrack
of myrhh, the
trigger.
the eyes of
are upon you—
1,400,000 or so camel eyes in Australia
[world’s only feral herd]
budding from camel heads
budding from camel bodies
budding from previous camel bodies
brought from India/Pakistan back way back
[PreJeepocene]
the key that broke the outback’s back
unlocked itself all over the desert
over cattle pastures now
well-lashed eyes
well-lashed eyes
the aerial marksman
sights the Bactrian
about to mount
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