They tread upon the rhizomes
Bare audacious unashamed
Handlers of fire
Twisters of bark
Successful mutilators
Successful because mutilators

Neither hedgehog nor panda
Beside or upon the motorway
That scoriates the landscape
For who invented landscape
Scarifier of face and arms
Featherless impaling shrike

Birds or rodents might have occupied this niche
Of frenzied artists who dismantle all niches
Who define to obliterate
Imperators of the fragile little planet
Contrivers of blades and plastic bags
Useful for hunting and for suicide