It’s belly swollen, like
a water hose ready to burst,
stretched out on warm asphalt
digesting a meal of critter a la carte.
I could envision it slithering
through the weeds and tall grass,
flicking through a menu of molecules,
airborne specials of fur and fright.
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Very interesting...I just painted a watercolor of a snake yesterday...but he wasn't digesting anything...You words make pictures in the mind jump off the page...love it.
Wow great imagery Pat...'like a water hose ready to burst' - I'll always be thinking of a snake now if that happens again like it just did a couple days ago LOL
great image--the lump slowly going down into the snake, but then the old boy doesn't have to eat for a while.
snake found some lunch....huh, :)
vivid picture....Pat.
I was reading about snakes today. It came at just the right time. Very apt title.
I like the shift from what you see to what you can picture.
lol.... I just saw this huge - about 6 footer snake the other day.... all this rain has the moccasins on the move!
I see it in your words so easily!
Yikes, this is very dangerous sounding (and in so few words!).
This one makes you think -- interesting
wonderful snake image
(saw a snake on the hood of my car
- realised it just a windscreen viper) old joke circa 1930 sorry
Good poem. It somehow reminded me of an illustration from the book 'The Little Prince'.
Im off the other way ...
It’s belly swollen, like
a water hose ready to burst,
Can you hear me screaming?
Yikes...
it wasn't me, it wasn't me! :D
i like the images here, pat.
'take-out' dining...
I live in MA, and my brother raises chickens. My brother heard his wife scream and he went running. What he saw was unbelievable. A small garder snake had his jaws around the chickens fleshy neck...the chicken was going nuts, the snake was hanging on for dear life.
The snake was pulled off the chicken but why in the world would a sm snake try to eat a whole chicken.
Nice poem, can I forward it to my brother...they have pic's of the crazy snake on the chicken, it would look great together. He would give credit to you as the author.
Love this one
Ooooh; I don't think we have those here.
giggling at Floots comment!
wow, great image :)
eeeeeeeeew weeeeeeeee!
...Poor little creature...maybe the snake could live on honey instead ;)
The second stanza is oh so ferfect!
weird how snake can ENGULF rather than swallow... and now I am visualizing the poor furry doomed critter being slowly ABSORBED into that long lean undulating body. ah, "snake peristalsis" agghghhghgh! you inspire such visual stimuli!
NINA
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