The Taste Snake
Written by Roxana Ilie
Translated from the Romanian by the poet
Narrated by Bill Wolak
there is a taste snake
that having caught sight of you
will roll over three times in the sand
and call you out by the syllables of his name
it will screw its snake head
right into your bones
and you will cover your skin with its skin
you will never find out
that
you’ve got a bone snake inside of you
that used to be a taste snake