Idol 3 Strikes : Week 23 "Yips"

[marlawentmad]

Sweet lizard had her belly to the ground
to feel the first rumbling of things
which have not yet come, but are just
out of sight, threatening.

Her rattle and hiss are early warnings
to a larger community of distracted busy-
bodies who do not heed her insistence, so
she sinks her fangs in and waits for the
attention to turn.

The initial shock aches and stings, but the mind
is a tricky ally to get a hold of,
the body is tended to at first.
The strange tingling down an arm,
a numbness that spreads down one side,
a tightening of the chest, and an unexpected
discoordination that makes the whole
beast lumber to and fro, bewildered and
panting.

The mind raced from one solution to the next,
instead of finding the eye of the storm deep
in the hollows of its body’s wide forest where the
snake waits to tell her story about what it is that
she is afraid of, and
the ways in which she
knows how to
protect.