Amit Majmudar
Contemplating Adam

No fangs. No claws.
No poisonous blue skin.
No pincushion-
Porcupine
Spines.
No ink,
No sting.
No canines
To give the stray paw
Pause.
No lizard-swift
Lick-thwip.
No alligator
Padlock-jaws.
No burnished tortoise
Armor plate or
Poison-ivy
Just you try me.
No boar
Tusks.
No skunk’s musk.
No fur.
No python maw.
No roar,
No grr.
Not even a caw.
Yet before
Him all Creation
Heels and neighs and
Bows and scrapes in
Sacred horror,
Sacred awe.

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