crickets click creaking
bog frogs blurp burping
buzzing bees, busy bees

sticky air swampy
listless leaves sweating
rippling reptile rouses

slip slithering the seething beast
wiggle winding, wending his way
slash splashing through the weedy reeds

snake eyes, forest prize
rattle shake, battle snake
Beware

devil’s grip dripping death
prey thrashing, panic pulsing
life leaking the unlucky

body bleeding, blood draining
slowly dying, flesh feeding
heeding hot hunger

bugs biting the fleshy bones
creep crawling the crumpled corpse
laying larvae, leaving life