The She Serpent

A Jar of Light, Jack Spencer

Prompt from MizQuickly's Learning Experience HERE:

 

 

Here, she said, her voice

(water running over moss)

soft, seeping from every pore,

holding eons of knowing

all the way back to Eden

and before.

 

Here, she said, slightly

(quicksilver motion of poetry)

tilting a glowing jar of glimmer,

brilliant dust of shining things -

sun, moon, stars, and creatures

of the deep that shimmer dimmer.

 

She has appeared before

(when time had no name)

beautiful, wise, archangel

Hylel, light-bringer, Morning Star

kicked out of Heaven

for hubris too regal.

 

Now she stands at the apex

(heady view of the world)

lovely, peccant, as if omniscient

yet, look at her eyes

too full of knowing, showing
she's not beneficent.