Green Serpent Costumes 1/13

How marvelous your skin

Scales of gold hues and the brightest green spiral patterns I’ve seen

There were 2 of you and now I search for newness as you slither into the world that was waiting

You left behind something so shiny and beautiful, but death was nothing to you

I go to move your dead Python armor and the weight is an adventure. SO massive and soft. I move one first, dragging your tail but I manage. It’s as though I am moving you away from a path rooted in danger. The second shedding is as equally challenging to move yet I succeed.

I sit and ponder the life you lived before you shed the bright beautiful past you. Where will your new skin take you? And there were two of you, what prey together were you seeking? Were you friends? What will be your first kill together in your new shiny armor?

I coil the old you and light a fire

To release and let go and begin again