Solo serpentine

Two Homo sapiens
spot a solo serpent
snaking/slinking/
slipping/sinuating/
slithering
soundlessly
like something

biblical,
fictional,
mythological:
like the spiteful snake
possessed by Satan
in the Garden of Eden;
like the sinister
serpentine symbol
of Salazar Slytherin;
like the better or worse
half of the duo
of serpents entwining
the Staff of Hermes.

Two Homo sapiens
take turns
in the symbolic saddle
of a solo serpent

Solo serpentine

snaking/slinking/
slipping/sinuating/
slithering
soundlessly
like something
else.