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Just a stack of firewood. Nothing more. You can move along. Absolutely nothing to see here but boring logssssss.

A 5 foot high stack of firewood fills up the entire frame of the photo. The ends of wood, which there are approximately 40, are angled slightly. In the middle of the stack, barely visible is the head of a small Northern Watersnake peering out from the logs.

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Do you remember Statler & Waldorf, those two Muppets that sat up in the balcony and rained down insults and heckled everyone?

I do.

#SnakesOnMyFirewood #Snakes #Wildlife

The whole photo is taken up by a closeup of a stack of firewood. There is a vertical shed 2x4 beam on the right. Nearly hidden between the layers of wood are two Northern Watersnakes. One is only exposing its head while the other’s head and upper body can be seen resting on the firewood. The snakes have red triangular markings.

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I’m going in!

I have Northern Watersnake friends that live on, and in, my stacked firewood. We’re neighbors you could say.

But now we have a contractor who is building a new awning and I need to temporarily relocate some of the wood. I’m going to have to squeeze my way in there.

Of course the snakes will think this is hilarious.

Wish me luck. 😆

#SnakesOnMyFirewood #Snakes #Reptiles #Wildlife

Parts of two stacks of firewood are pictured, the front one a bit lower than the back. They are both stacked near a shed. Auto the front stack, a Northern Watersnake is curled up with its face looking at me. On the back row is a second snake entangled in the wood. Both snakes are medium-sized about 2+ feet long and have gray and reddish triangular patterns.

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Looking straight at the side edge of two stacks of firewood. Each is under a shed awning and sitting on wood pallets. They are only separated by about 18 inches, enough for me to squeeze in if I need to. At the lower side of the left stack is a Northern Watersnake, about 2 feet long, sunning itself near the opening.

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Closeup of a Northern Watersnake stretched out and lounging over a few pieces of firewood which are stacked. The snake has gray and reddish triangular patterns. It is 2+ feet in length.

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Today, 16 July, is #WorldSnakeDay – so here is “Siesta of a Hungarian Snake”, by Edwin Morgan 🐍

Published in New Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2012)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #concretepoetry #snake #snakes #EdwinMorgan

Edwin Morgan
Siesta of a Hungarian Snake

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The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine…

—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”
First published in The Pure Account (Aberdeen University Press, 1981), & included in The Wrong Music (@canongatebooks 1989)

A poem for #WorldSnakeDay 🐍

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/adder-quinag/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturewriting #Scotland #highlands #snake #snakes