Garter snake

   I am a line going somewhere--
   Here and gone.
   You can't believe your eyes,
   for where you see me
   I have already been,
   a sly dividing purpose
   in the dissheveled grass,
   an S that writes and disappears--
   except when I coil to Q
   and flag Morse too rapid to read
   with a sound like a deflating tire.
   Like an unsteady wire coil
   I sample the air, sample the air
   of its small electricity.
   When the threat passes
   I uncoil and shiver away
   into a crevice
   where I wait with a question.

COPYRIGHT 2003 The Christian Century Foundation
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning

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