Before there was
a tongue,
there was a
tongue,
tough, sibilant
snake-like
craving
sweet, salt,
bitter
words
to cry
out
Light
drew the eye,
sight grew
by folding rules,
so tree, root,
leaf, branch,
seed got all
balled up
in tangled
thought,
that fabled
serpent,
coiling
helix, with its
tail caught
in its throat.
