--And the world bent into the wide, the field of beige and mild forevers but the snake wanted something else; I found its skin of stretchy diamonds and picked it up, so I could keep one of the two selves. The skin had eyes and the eyes had skin, all papery before and afterward, a little cellophane with dirt around the rim--that's good; there had been time for it to be one thing before the world behind the world called the snake, and the snake went-- |
© 1993 from Bright Existence, Wesleyan University Press, 1993