THE SNAKE
slowly crept
up my knees.
"Ha, Ha!" the Freudians would interpose,
"we all know
what kind of snake that is."
"No," is the right answer,
"this is another snake."
© Kristin Dimitrova
© Gregory O'Donoghue, translated
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© E-magazine LiterNet, 09.04.2006, ¹ 4 (77)
Other publications:
Kristin Dimitrova. A Visit to the Clockmaker. Cork: Southword Edition (Ireland),
2005.