SHARK

SHARK

thought
it was a
shark

but it
was a devil’s thorn
easy
   mistake
to make

this desert once
an ocean
a million
years back

wonder though
with a
    shark’s ferocity
(almost as
     fierce as your Zulu,
Mongol or Viking)

why there is
no such thing
as a “devil shark”
their names:
Tiger and
Great White and Nurse
and Zambezi

far too
   kind and respectful if
you were to ask me