"fantasies about that rattlesnake" 69
"the coiled whispers of decay" 94
"cables snake away" 101
"held in the jaws of the serpentine" 108
"Hemp gripped
in the teeth of the steel snake" 109
"the winding river, the imperial serpent"
111
"serpent coiled in the teacup" 139
"sheet-metal ducting that snakes like a
spine" 302
"the serpent tuck of a head toward the exact moment and spot on the
ground that you'll cease to live" 342
"tense as vipers" 385
"dainty black
snakes a hundred feet below" 398
"the cosmic serpent" 411
Kekulés
Serpent, 413
"The smooth-faced Custodian of the Night hovers behind neutral eyes
and smile, coiled and pale over the city, humming its hoarse lullabies" 434-35;
"diamond shadows writhing like snakes" 452
"Plastic serpents crawled endlessly
to left and right." 487
"Gable [...] the proud, shining, snakelike head" 516;
serpentine, 520
"another shot rattlesnaking off of a bulkhead" 529
"snake-sure"
531
"her openness was a viper writhing in my heart" 547
"a chance for violence?
A snake jumping off a limb" 656
"the serpent face" 671
"the buzzing serpent"
689
"yellow sparks will spill away with a rattlesnake buzz" 692
"steel penis
with slotted serpent head" 694
Serpent/Pan, 720-21
"beautiful Serpent, its
coils in rainbow lashings" 721
"perishable as the skin of a snake" 722
"serpent
coils that lash above the surface of the Earth in rainbow light" 726
