Volume 11, Number 4, Fall 2010
Mapping the City Issue
The Snake
The snake
at the
nation-
al zoo
is two-
headed.
It slith-
ers for-
ward strug-
gling to
go this
way or
that. Each
head hiss-
es at
the oth-
er lung-
es in
an at-
tempt to
bite. One
forbid-
den day
one for-
tunate
head will
swallow
the oth-
er.
Mike Maggio is the author of several books of poetry and fiction, including: Garden of Rain/Le Jardin de Pluie (Aldrich Press, 2015), The Wizard and the White House (Little Feather Books, 2014), deMOCKcracy (Plain View Press, 2007), Sifting Through the Madness (Xlibris, 2001), Oranges From Palestine (Mardi Gras Press, 1996) and Your Secret is Safe With Me (Black Bear Publications, 1988). He lives in Herndon, Virginia. His web site is www.mikemaggio.net. To read more by this author: "Shoptalk," Whitman Issue; "Collateral Damage," Wartime Issue.