Croc meets the alligators.
Croc has kin visiting
Big cousins, outland cousins
Tough-bastard cousins
Cousins that would bite
Your head off for speaking.
Or croc's.
That lie in wait, breath brood-bated
Hot jaw-muscled,
Tussle strengthened.
Siblingbones roll,
Knuckle, deuce-sucked.
Tongues loll in anticipation.
Croc shoves choicest viands
Safe neath limbpit creases
Tosses head to-fro
Flings bone-shards rattling
Cries poor and starving.
Eyes dart, reckon effect.
Beyond barra, croc.
Beyond croc, cousins.
Beyond cousins, what?
Froth floats, eddy-driven
Pink-laced round bubbles as
River works time's hard scrubbing:
Stones' grind on bones.