<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0366 Poem as snake, poem as not-snake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Walking the narrow, stepped path that bends<br>through our local sub-tropical, <br>magical landfall, full of strangeness, <br>there it was<br>across the path, <br>brownish, yellow and green markings, <br>waiting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">adrenalin poured through the body, <br>waking instinct, emotion, thoughts; <br>possible next moves racing manifold through the mind, <br>uncertainties, no previous experience<br>of quite this situation to rely on<br>in our relatively snake-free neighbourhood<br>and it was big; <br>the body froze, <br>the eyes just looked</div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the branch, covered in <br>green moss, yellow lichen, <br>brown and almost weightless with rot<br>so that the storm had tossed it<br>onto the path, into my path, <br>indifferent, innocuous, <br>so much so that as the body<br>restored to equilibrium<br>I was beyond kicking it aside -<br>in some sort of embarrassed respect; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it, unaffected by all I brought to it; <br>like a poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460807" data-title="0366 Poem as snake, poem as not-snake de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Walking the narrow, stepped path that bends through our local sub-tropical, magical landfall, full of strangeness, there it was across the path, brownish, yellow and green markings, waiting adrenalin poured through the body, waking instinct,..."></div> </div> </div>

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