~ GOD TO THE SERPENT ~

 

Beloved Snake, perhaps my finest blueprint,

How can I not take pride in your design?

Your passage without hoof or paw or shoe print

Revels in art's and nature's S-curve line.

 

No ears, no whiskers, fingers, legs, or teeth,

No cries, complaints, or curses from you start;

By silence shares your body in its sheath,

Full-functioning with no superfluous part.

 

Men try to emulate your forkéd tongue,

Their prideful prick dwarfed by your lordly length.

Two arms for blows or hugging loosely hung

Are mocked by Boa Constrictor's single strength.

 

How dare men claim their image as my own,

With all those limbs and features sticking out?

You, Snake, with continuity of bone

Need but a spine to coil and cruise about.

 

Men fear the force of your hypnotic eyes,

Make myths to damn your being wise and deft.

You, Snake, not men, deserve my cosmic prize.

I'm glad you stayed in Eden when they left.

 

--Virginia Hamilton Adair

 

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