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The Snake House.(poetry)(Poem)
THE SNAKE HOUSE The roof-tiles are overlapped like the scales of a snake about to shed its skin. Under the keratin I can see diamonds of new colour. It's time to go up to your front door, Mother, and ring the rattling buzzer of a bell, the door with two curved fangs. I go in, into the muscular throat of the hall, down the tunnel that's closing now to a pinpoint of light. I'm in the swallowing living-room, washing it for you, half-alive ...
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