Squids have grey eyes
formed from the jelly of galaxies folded into the air
beyond sight.
The sea is a cousin
to the space they occupy.
Beasts,
creatures with beaks where a nipple should be,
dental digits,
and rolling pus pocked tongues
to snatch blood.
Love knows, and so does the King,
and all the country sleeps
without knowledge of predators
lurking at the edge
of the sky.
Do not look for them,
for they are alien
in a way that is beyond human conception.
They eat will and spirit as easy as flesh,
and think nothing of our law,
our god,
our body
of war,
we are snackfood
we are so small
we can't even see them in the mist
