Sorry, hit Send too soon. Read it (and write it) like this:

Her spine was a snake.

It was the track of a snake.

It was the groove the water snake makes
in the glossy mud of the riverbank.

Her spine was a viper,
an anaconda.

It was the strength of the anaconda. It
was the anaconda's unknown hieroglyphic.

Her spine was a ladder,
a rod; it
was a chain,
a canal, it
was a caravan.

Her buttocks were fresh-baked loaves;
they were ivory eggs; they
were the eggs of a lonely phoenix.

They were a fist.


Heck, send that into a small poetry magazine and I guarantee they
print it.
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