this garden fruit and soft summer colors
you come to me in the shade
world relaxed, murmurs of
bees and no lonely blossoms
though soon gentle eden will know
wild wind, wet rain, winter frost
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Tag: eden
Poem 20150629
the snake gets called out
for being
subtle
crafty
cunning
depending on who’s translating
adam and eve just
took advantage of his offer
recognizing in it
a kindred spirit
an alimentary canal
that slithered on its belly
consuming and expelling
everything in its wake
an ouroboros, a midgard serpent
the whole human condition
wrapped up in a constantly renewing skin
desire and rejection moving us forward
fear and anger and compassion
like arms and legs that sprouted later
and tried to pull us in different directions
many masters of a single-minded
eating and shitting clockwork
Words and Feathers 