This lovely little poem is the second one by Hailey Leithauser that I have found. It does not portray the tiger shark as cuddly by any stretch of the imagination.
Tiger Shark – Hailey Leithauser
Fear streamlined to elegance
and elegance made mute
within this skin of gunmetal
and gash mouthed grin. Repute
would have the monster cruel—untrue—
for mannerly cruelty
demands a heart, unwitnessed
in its calm machinery.
