Sand-Cast Torso of a Snake
Inspired by a Photograph of the Sculpture “Culebra” by Isabel de Obaldia
Sand-Cast Torso of a Snake
Inspired by a Photograph of the Sculpture “Culebra” by Isabel de Obaldia
Your shedded skin I view you as if it were human as if cast in dough as if newly baked but imperfect, as if in “thanks” to some enthusiastic oven shaking all your particles together in formula of some great big BANG! Even though my belly is flat on the earth as I view this topographic, granular confection as if from space!— I see the collision of tectonic plates as if locked like a jaw holding the red brilliant protrusion in your chest and the heat of two ancient fang bites in your thighs, such that I rest my head on the floor cloaking your world in the darkness of my hair until I raise my face, and it’s as if I can’t recall which way is up.
by Sarah Dzida