echidna: born of eve and lucifer

they meet underneath the apples on the sabbath to fuck in the bushes
she couldn’t help but love it when the forked tongue made an electric feast
of her soft flesh          such a division she never felt while being another man’s
rib             she knows all the scales in the world         and knows the snake is
a liar               but why shouldn’t she be able to have some fun     while it lasts
and adam is as thick as a post anyway           always finishing too fast
with adam        she was a way             for the first man to jack himself off
the serpent       cared about her     pleasure        at least

echidna: half woman half snake

she lies in the desert her twin tails stretched out       split out underneath her
she travels miles and miles and miles      living off the dust of the land
thanking her great grandmother for      the food
oh Papatūānuku how good are thou           how good
she makes it to the coast      the sun plays with the chop of the wave
she takes to the water to pledge   allegiance to her great-grandfather Tangaroa
a daughter of Tū-te-wehiwehi     he had to have a Pākehā name didn’t he?
Sat on         what did he sit on?          she admits she could have misheard
as she floats nymphal in the
ocean