 Dinner plate! Snakes show up in the most surprising places. In "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard has this to say about a copperhead: "I noticed its tail. It tapered to nothingness. I started back at the head and slid my eye down its body slowly: taper, taper, taper, scales, tiny scales, air."
Dinner plate! Snakes show up in the most surprising places. In "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard has this to say about a copperhead: "I noticed its tail. It tapered to nothingness. I started back at the head and slid my eye down its body slowly: taper, taper, taper, scales, tiny scales, air." 
 
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