Curvature--small stone #4

Stopped, stooping
to peer
in shadows could have
been a spine,
shed snakeskin,
armadillo tail.
With quiet leaves
just then I hear the wren.

scoliosis
1706, from Mod.L., from Gk. skoliosis "crookedness," from skolios "bent, curved," from PIE base *(s)qel- "crooked, curved, bent, perverted."

© 2010 Nancy L. Ruder