a teetering shape
in the hazardous
distance its head
thrown back in a
sadistic sort of
delight mimic arms
wrenching its own
outpourings like snakes
from anywhere else
than here it will
surely sound like
a scarlet dirge.

the wails of
the world it has
silenced with
one deft gesture
of its stone-hard
arms and it just
laughs on its
laughter of unseen
hybrid so proud.

[watercolour on paper]