Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. - Ted Hughes

The brassy wood-pigeons
Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun
Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

The deeps are cold:
In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:
Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

No, the serpent did not
Seduce Eve to the apple.
All that's simply
Corruption of the facts.<p>Adam ate the apple.
Eve ate Adam.
The serpent ate Eve.
This is the dark intestine.<p>The serpent, meanwhile,
Sleeps his meal off in Paradise—
Smiling to hear
God's querulous calling.