Two Poems
John Glenday, 29 November 2007
I love you as I love the Hatchetfish, the Allmouth, the Angler, the Sawbelly and Wolf-eel, the Stoplight Loosejaw, the Fangtooth;
all our sweet bathypelagic ones, and especially those too terrible or sly even for Latin names; who saddle their menfolk to the vagina’s hide
like scorched purses, stiff with seed; whom God built to trawl endless cathedrals of darkness, their bland eyes...