I love the way your poetry feels. This one took me some time because I wanted to re-read it a few times - the first I kind of just let it wash over me, and then later I go back to really dig at it.

I like the shift in the third stanza - it was very sudden but not at all jarring; the whole thing felt like it flowed (or slithered along, as it were) from end to end.

Definitely not something I was expecting out of this prompt, but it worked really well. :)