White bone shining in the black wet clay
Doctor says the past has more to say
Pack the nets and the camera glass
Push the boat through the hidden pass
Lab coat bright on a fevered deck
Hunter wants a trophy, swimmer wants a breath
Something watches from the cypress shade
Not born to be found, not built to be saved
The deck is getting nervous
The nets are getting torn
The old world isn’t missing
Consider yourself warned
Black water, white bone
Claws reach from the unknown
Something crawling through the screen
A creature watches underneath
Stay on the boat, stay out of the reeds
Don’t trust the water when it breathes
Killer creature, don’t end up dead
Black and white and cyan and red
She cuts the surface in a silver line
Something below her keeps perfect time
Not love, not mercy, not human need
Just old eyes learning how strangers bleed
Claw in the net and the deck goes still
Proof has a pulse and a living will
Lock it in iron, call it contained
Then count the bars when it moves again
There’s a shape beneath the swimmer
There’s a hand below the keel
There’s a secret in the water
That the camera can’t reveal
Black water, white bone
Claws reach from the unknown
Something crawling through the screen
A creature watches underneath
Stay on the boat, stay out of the reeds
Don’t trust the water when it breathes
Killer creature, don’t end up dead
Black and white and cyan and red
Specimen jar
Field note
Latin name
Lantern glow
Measure the hand
Mark the vein
Draw the skull
Explain the pain
Claw in the net, blood in the wake
Nothing here was yours to take
Missing link, hunted too far
The lagoon answers with claws
THE LAGOON ANSWERS WITH CLAWS
Black water, white bone
Claws reach from the unknown
Something crawling through the screen
A creature watches underneath
Stay on the boat, stay out of the reeds
Don’t trust the water when it breathes
Killer creature, don’t end up dead
Black and white and cyan and red