Snake taken in the TN mountains with a quotation from Mary Oliver’s Have You Seen Blacksnake Swimming? from the book “Why I Wake Early”.



". . . he made a lacy wake and there was a rippling sound,
a sort of soft music, just enough to amuse that narrow mouth,
whose corners, in that coolness, were lifted in even more than
his usual gentleman's smile.




Mary Oliver
"Why I Wake Early"