Mike Adam

Cobra

Out of the blackness

Milky-white eminence rises

Omphalos umbilus of the world

Dripping venom and solace

In equal doses

 

Is not creation myth

Of sunrise or moondance

Erotic charge of being

Connection of ether

Asserted from nothing

 

Uncoiled sss thick body

Glowing colour grey

Black edged scales

Vast hood of metallic

Green lozenge flanked

By blind yellow flash

 

Out of the blackness

The milky rainbowed cobra

Source of destruction

Of chaos of growth