will offer no companionship; though you make the journey together, you are alone. The trail followed is as serpentine and dangerous as a venomous snake, perhaps echoing the snake in the Bible. We are left with the "thin-flanked belief" of the body as a vehicle of the spirit, but it is not the last journey we will make, hinting at this journey as a prelude to transcendence.
[by Susan Swartwout]
"Ascent to Mountaintop, No Chariot"
from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Missouri Poets: Susan Swartwout
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