Out walking, I found
two dead snakes
tied in a lover’s knot.
Slumped in the grass,
their skins shone
like beaded copper
while flies traveled
up their lengths.
I looked at the male,
tethered to his mate.
She lay beside him,
mouth gorged open.
I left them behind,
worried all lovers
could end this way –
in the open, without
keep or tending.
In the living wake of
things, I pray there’s
a heaven for snakes.
Their bodies coiling
round one another
in the high, cool grass.
–Matthew Haughton,
Bee-Coursing Box (2011)
Accents Publishing
Matthew Haughton was born in Colorado in 1977. At an early age, his family returned to eastern Kentucky, where his lineage stretches back over a century in the region. Matthew is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. Most recently, he was a finalist in the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning’s Next Great Writer Competition. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as Kentucky Monthly, Still: The Journal, and The Heartland Review. This is his first published collection of poems. He lives and works as an artist and educator in Lexington Kentucky.
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