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
Uppsala's premier sewer-rat - the town's least prolific amateur wordsmith. poetry-attempts seeped in the historical, the mythical and the ever-so-human. A fiery follower of the 'Poete maudit' tradition. Apocalypticist and eschatological. Anti-modern. Decadent, spiritual, extreme, beautiful, dystopian, romantic. Personal, confessional, devotional. Everything posted = work in progress. This blog writes under the banner of, and in ever allegiance to, The End Commune (2012-2022; revived in 2025)
Saturday, March 23, 2024
"MUD-COLOURED WATER PIG"
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