Blackbird an online journal of literature and the arts Spring 2008 Vol. 7 No. 1

POETRY


ELEANOR ROSS TAYLOR

Eve

The serpent in my Eden
swallowed Adam.
He slithered into meals;
of course, my bed.
Wrapped himself tighter, tighter,
all around me,
ejecting sweetish venom
in my head,
no simple adder.
That stupe’s gone, he said,
strangling,
love me instead.  


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