Declassified
The secret language of circling sharks
I’m told is nothing more than genetically coded
tooth and cartilage, spoken only
in the present tense of blood.
The secret language of circling hawks
I’m told is similar to the circling owl’s
talon and beak, talon-and-beak echoes.
No past. No future. Now, prey, now.
The secret language of a circling spider
I’m told employs a solitary circling verb:
Is. This web is being woven, this entrapment
is happening. In her sticky truth is a stinger.