SnakeFirst published in Sand Hill Review #4, Spring 2003, page 38.
Imagine yourself a snake. Lie on the floor right where you are. Take off your arms, even your shoulders. Resign yourself to the permanent loss of opposable thumbs. Fuse your legs together down to your feet. Lose even your hips, and weave your extended torso across the floor, slithering, flagging your toeless tail in the same air where you extend your forking tongue. Now write a poem. Do not add legs. Posted to Pinterest by Virginia Quarterly Review on 3 April 2013.
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