Hag Tales of Crag'Cwmlech

as assuredly, truthfully told, verbatim,
to Hacedor Quevedo, Imp. Soc. Arch,
by the Glenmoril sisters of Cut-Vein Creek

CANTO I: Cosmogenesis:

Ald long since, in the dark tide
of the naught- nothing known
grandfather river flowed

unbounded o'er bank
and strand, salt-dead
guts of the abyss drinking

lonely in the hushness
of the snuff'd keening brine.
So well fine and queer whisk

for out the pickling fuss
be amongst swimming her,
Nnhir Nha Mhoon Dll

trouty first mother clad in furs
and teeth, hunger goading
in her fishy ribs, she peaked

her gob above the deep,
to have nibble at the dub briar,
Pydd Dydderi Mhada,

sodding his way in bogclabber.
He go in sweetshins down gullet
but his barbed viriles, like spear

wall caterans, held tight
her tummy side, and she begot
fat with his score and five brood

who burst loose and cut her
sunder, banquet that flesh
lo their own mother

and cut canoes and skeans
from the scales and bones
and rode the river

down,