Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Crawfish
are not in the Bible
…spawned in that slime
Conceived
by a pair of those monsters
Born
of Cain
-From Beowulf in Burton Raffel’s fine
translation
Eating crawfish is seasonally lawful
But I tell you true, they’re simply offal!