A  web-throttled, aquatic,
Coat-floating rodent with
A counter-current, heat-deterrent,
Flat-tail, leather-strap,
Drop-prop rudder that slaps
Ripples under water drizzle :

A potent icon of the holarctic,
Sporting iron-orange incisor chisels
Felling forest to lodge in flora ;
Second largest to the capybara—
An anal-preening submarine
Enduring by eating tree bark,

That guards by marking lasting tracts
With urine fluid from castor sacs .

*[ WSB ]_.