Things that slip slide...

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Things that slip slide

slither and stretch...

When I met my friend

at the Park gates

at precisely 5 minutes past 4...

We both leave our respective homes at 4pm

I walk up the Boardwalk

and she walks down her street

on the edge of the park

and we meet at the gates...

Anyway...

when I met my friend

she asked if I wanted

to come back up to her garden

to visit her snake

She had told me he lived in a tree

for a few days,

went off for a day or two foraging

then returned to sleep it off

curled in a branch

of the tree beside her deck

While I pulled the foliage back

my friend attacked the tree

with her secateurs -

what we will do 

for a photo for you...

The snake didn't appreciate

our horticultural endeavours

and stretched out

to check

what was happening

to his previously quiet abode

Most of his body remains coiled

around the branch

at the bottom left corner

and his top third had elongated

up and over a limb

to dangle back towards us...

He is a small python, 

what we call a carpet snake

It was a slithery 

sort of walk today

as on the track

in the fading light -

we had spent too long

with the snake

and were running low 

on daylight

we encountered

a very slithery slow skink

We stopped a jogger

who came up behind us

in case she should run over him,

that would make for 

a very squishy sensation

He was in no hurry 

to clear the track

He slipped and slid

and slithered

slowly

into the bush

and we skedaddled on

into the sunset

looking for koalas...

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