It is cool to the touch
and angular in shape
Its jaws are sharp yet smooth
and its sole wing flaps flightlessly
preparing the creature to feast
on the helpless white buds
that sprout from thin stalks
rooted in a bulbous anchor
It attacks with voracious ferocity
No warning, none at all
Save for that of the flightless wing
preparing, in vain, for flight
An exercise in defamiliarization in fourth year high school.
