Mythological Figures

Whether prodigious as the cold giant crying at the earth's nether end,

or designed to amaze, with snakes fluidly curling at the cheekbone's edge,

or with goat feet given to the continuous lust, the demoniac erection,

all of them like scars lacing the smooth flesh of our common body,

or like an eye grown with long disease shut to the whole vision,

burn in a blunt light at the peripheries of our nervous balance,

beckoning with a stiff claw, or a hundred mouths, wet with their expectation.