(By Gub, HBC, June 2015)
...of the beasts of the garden,
Gifted by God,
To Adam,
and also Eve
For their dominion
Of pastures, hedgerows and
Brooks
They brought forth words
For the birds and the bees and
The cattle and the sheep
And the fish that swam
Deep in the ponds
And the rustle of the shrew
Foraging beneath the
Falling
Autumn leaves
And the names they gave were
Noble and some were sad
But for every creature
They
Anointed
They felt their hearts
sure and glad
For how could distrust
Be born at a beginning
But in the weeks and months
That passed; they grew less certain
The names were less easy
To cast
Agreements harder to find.
Divided they gave up the
Roll-call
Some creatures escaped
Notice and crept away silent
Unnamed
Adam folded his list
Eve sang a gentle lullaby
To herself in the twilight
As darkness
The wind raked the surface of the
water;
Deep below the yellow flowered lily leaves,
An unkown creature - black as frozen ice
Darted
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