after John Singleton Copley
This is a magical year.
I am Creation's Adam: the beast
is a shark because I call it thusly.
A god takes on the bosun's duties,
and in the well-behaved water
our Grecian hero swoons, short one leg
and gentle as a lamb.
His polite blood stays where we cannot see it.
Men have become much older men.
I have given up hiding my forefathers.
Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley
