A Boa Strikes Samoa Poem
By Nellie Isabelle Steward Cooper
Bright as disaster
The morning sky
Above a burnished sea
Leans close
As though to devour
Not just one
But all-
Holds still-
For one small signal waiting
To spread its length, slip down
The rope of day
And crush
The soft-delicate,
Bones of earth
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