Snake and Flowers – Taylor Graham

SNAKE AND FLOWERS

I’m invisible in the painting,

weed-eating May’s flowers – the same,

or sisters of the ones I cut in March

and again in April, last year and the last,

perennial acrylic blossoms on wood.

A fool’s errand it seems. And here’s

the snake, winding its way with flowers.

Is this the serpent who inspired

the artist? Where does art leave off

and life intrude? namely, this Western

Rattlesnake. Flowers and snake,

I’m intertwined in their design.