Jay Nichols's Blog - Posts Tagged "introductions"

Those mind-numbing days, how they creep—no, make that slither—under your fence, across your backyard, over your porch, through your kitchen, up your staircase, past your bedroom door and into your room, where they kink up into a tight and tidy coil underneath your bed. If March enters a lion and leaves a lamb, then August slides in as easily and unobtrusively as a serpent seeking a cool place to lie. But it is always hesitant to leave. Once that cool, dark spot is claimed, nothing short of slaughter will get it to relinquish its position. It will hiss. It will strike. It will defend itself to its very death.