the swamp thing

[amorphous_constellation]

From the nape of the neck, to the globule frog's toe,
Seeping in a reticulation of willow coils, verdantly expunged in silt and soil
And legions of red-wing blackbirds, flit across the gnarled, basil shoulder trunk
Dribbling and drooling, the beads of turquoise beetles
The plain, bored squint of a dull red eye, fortified from a fire-eaten sun
By layer upon layer, of seaweed tentacle sundae, and triple-squished mud eons
The leech darts, a maze of reeds, the lunar triangulation of tadpoles, flanking green beachheads
The swamp thing emerges for brief respite, to the narrow symphony of beaver gnaws
In a Jurassic america, he swallowed each sunset, in green velvet jaws

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[Gargovic Malkav]

From the nape of the neck, to the globule frog's toe,
Seeping in a reticulation of willow coils, verdantly expunged in silt and soil
And legions of red-wing blackbirds, flit across the gnarled, basil shoulder trunk
Dribbling and drooling, the beads of turquoise beetles
The plain, bored squint of a dull red eye, fortified from a fire-eaten sun
By layer upon layer, of seaweed tentacle sundae, and triple-squished mud eons
The leech darts, a maze of reeds, the lunar triangulation of tadpoles, flanking green beachheads
The swamp thing emerges for brief respite, to the narrow symphony of beaver gnaws
In a Jurassic america, he swallowed each sunset

feel free to add to it

 

[amorphous_constellation]

part 2

The gargling gelatinous suds, the percolating burbles of the rare moss-oysters
Ordered in fractals, the platypus swarm, all manner of mammalian mud sliders
Slippery weasel-like creatures, the Titanoboa, the subterranean amphibious rainbow,
Every shade of green represented, in the flaccid sky's eye-egg
From which/whom the swamp is birthed, collected in vials by careful scientists
The mosquito vortex, meat-eyed deviled flies, the mucky cud of a brontosaur
The social pyramid of a society of gnats, 30 foot tall rubber hip-waders, fitted to marsh giants
Crocodile clocks and alligator doors, a snake's holy highway
The sludge digested the over-ambitious dirt-bike, no courtly concrete foundation could be laid

 

[amorphous_constellation]

Finally emerging, with the eye of a duck, with the tongue of a salamander, with the eyebrow of a gnat
With the off-neon of the inscrutable golden pikaia
The master cabinet spilling with peat moss, the door bursting with fine and fair muds
The lily pad resembles an mri image of a brain, perhaps its brain is a clever and cunning lily pad
Horse flies, deer flies, bear-turtles, a network of strange and subconscious fish
The opposite of desert, a peculiar companion of clear skies
Foresight of fish gills, like lightning up from the algae, foreshadows the/a zipping of myriad piranhas
It's massive neck up from a loch, photographic evidence of the smell you never heard.
Nature conceals its swampy mass 'neath no steely grate, the undulating green pancake