Seahorse

 

Little changeling

staked to your patch

of eelgrass, your

camo shifts with mood.

 

You are fair game

for the dragnet,

however your hue

may flux.

 

Caught, you are

ground up—

quack cure

for impotence.

 

If only you could

transmogrify into

myth—the great

sea-steed of Poseidon,

 

towering and relentless

as a tidal wave

howling down

on the human shore.