#9 by: Glen Edwards, Ceramics on Metal – 2017
Hi Mr. Rattle Snake. Look at you so
coiled up shaking your tail with red diamonds
on your back and raising your head sitting
in the fork in the golden road. You frighten me.
Please don’t bite me. I am with child.
I am trying to go to my Uncle’s house down
this golden road. Will you let me pass, please?
Could you go bother the mean old man on the hill?
He has a heart of coal.
Please don’t bite me, for I am with child.
I turned around to go back where I came from
to get my friend. I came back and you were gone.
I heard a scream and a shot right after it.
Ma’am, I got that mean old man for you. He shot
my friend, Mr. King Snake.
Thank you for not biting me, for I am with child.