Snake Eye
Your eye, that reptile jewel hung yellow as
a sunken sun, your talk a
cloudy snakeskin strung with pierced pendant hearts--when
it passed idly over me, measuring
and rejecting
the price of that collecting, you
almost said
you loved me, but remembered
a lie will cause a reckoning more
often than it saves one.
~January 2015
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Weekend Challenge: Flash 55 Plus
Kerry once again brings us the 55 meme, and her optional Plus this time is to write it in the form of a Herrick Stanza (word count 8-6-8-6-2-6-2-5-7-5.) This made for some weird enjambment, but I kind of like it this way.
Image: The Eye of A Green Tree Python, copyright Joel Satore
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