Gargoyle 51 Cover by Patricia Storms Published 9/7/2006
Alphabet Series: S
Pamela Murray Winters
The snake that stirs the apple fixes it to fall, slick, hard, immutable Not a rattle, just a repeated ess in its wake— a slipchain of shushes a kiss with a snuffed-out eye a mouth never touching the skin. No fang on the smooth fruit. No, it passes into privilege, sheds its sin like a skin.