SNAKE

SNAKE

snake in a box
picture of coiled contentment

mindful
ambush predator
haemo- and neurotoxic

totally at peace
Zen moment
or so it
would seem

but no
finer out the box thinker
better escapologist
than this
      sleepy lightning
rod clan
  
this
   in reality
alike
in
mythology

shedding its lifetime
of skins faster
     than
          you
change your clothes
shed outworn soul’s

snakes here in abundance
though I do not
cannot yet see them

coiled around my limbs, my
heart, neck,
wrists  ankles

no snake eyes as such
but certainly snake mind