"MUD-COLOURED WATER PIG"

 horrific barbels rise from the surface :
the retinae of total predation
stares like houwitzers in this night

the young boy bleeds out on the bank
screaming like a stuck pig

a crude and bestial phlebotomy
from the beast of the river Kali :

ghost of the windling river estuary

feaster upon the funeral pyres

sprouted lurker below the threshold  

mud-coloured water-pig
emerging from the opaque waters !

hideous Makara-spawn !!!

fear spreads amongst the fishery

the children gossip of anthropophagous monsters

the psychology of terror instills
in a superstitious Kalapani traditional husbandry

bodies disappear upstream and no corpse is ever found !

monstrous goonch, the devil's catfish
haunts the waterway now

more blood-thirsty than any crocodile or gharial,
the beast goonch of the river Kali
developed a taste for rotten human flesh