Poems by Ruth Padel

'The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess' project has commissioned 15 new poems by Ruth Padel, who participated in excavations on the island of Crete as a student.

1. Sometimes a goddess is a Second Thought

2. Discovery

3. She comes to you broken

4. Evening in the Garden of the Villa Ariadne

5. Like Taking in your Hand the Mysteries of Egyptian Faience Below the ARth

6. Imagining the Sign for Snake in Linear A

7. When a Man Looks at a Woman Wrapped in Snakes

8. How Snake Wrangling Feels in the Wild

9. The Votary

10. The Enchantment

11. Looking at Cranach's Eve, I think of My New Medusa Christmas Tree Ornament

12. What You Do with the Palace of Yourself

13. The World, in the Shape of My Trainer Lee Newman, Picks its Own Snake Goddess

14. Serpent Queen on the 88 Bus

15. Snake Goddess at 3 a.m.

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