~ Kinship Like me, the gopher snake prefers the southfacing base of rocks to rest. I admire his coolflatness, spread along the ground like a mythof transformation, the stick that’s not a stick.I nearly tread on him until his jacquard patternlifts in the light and stops my foot. Length tangledin the dead stalks of grass, … Continue reading Issue 1|2: “Kinship” by Subhaga Crystal Bacon