Native

the python
does not belong
here,
not just the proverbial snake
in Eden
but invasive
liberated from a pet store
glass aquarium
to stalk the glade

talapia, too,
eventually too big
for stork to eat
competes for nests
with the local fish

bear, turtle, panther
and humankind
molded from mud
into the Fourth World
climb from the pit into air

I also come from elsewhere