Strange to conceive of now
a hammerhead shark
on the Tudor radar
Drawn from that stable
of fabulous, possibly
unbelievable beasts:
Delphin and cordile
phenix, an unicorne
rhinocerote of the sea
That rich menagerie
of the mind’s eye pulling
at a thread of reason
One stitched in confinement
work of so many needles
in the shadow of the axe
Second Nature: James Lindesay’s Poetry 