SNAKES: A HAIKU SEQUENCE

SNAKES

Sunny morning:

a snake slides through the fence

looking for a prey

Full of silt

the Ganga overflows:

snakes under the waves

Raises its hood

a cobra in water:

algae criss-cross

Searching reason

in the labyrinthine pattern:

snakes in courtyard

Avoids searching

mushroom in the crowded green--

snake on the fence

Searches thorn apples

to propitiate lingam:

snake in sanctum

A snake's tail

coils round a sweet

in the box

Smells a snake

in the wet grass--

her smile

Rises with tickles

between the thighs

the dream-serpent

A yellow snake

slithers on the grass--

dewy trail of love

Climbing high through

rough pathway and stony cold

a green snake

A snake's dead skin

near the fence:

she stands unmoving

--R.K.SINGH