Snake Comments

THis is a grand poem! A spectacular poem, both for its language and for its intelligence! Five stars are too few!

Can we accept those we don't understand, especially when judgement has been preconceived.

phrases like 'writhed like lightning' and 'earth-lipped fissure' as well as much excellent and close, outwardly directed observation, mark this as a great poem, albeit marred by its rambling quality and its indecisiveness.

a lovely poem, sort of in tribute to a sometimes-thought-loathsome creature, SNAKE! and also a condemnation of some of the thinking and actions of men/women/children towards snakes. i came to read this after D.H. Lawrence was mentioned in a comment by Daniel Brick, on my poem Salamander. :) bri