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Happy World Snake Day – 16 July – to all who celebrate. Here’s Edwin Morgan’s “Siesta of a Hungarian Snake”, published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990) 🐍 https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/ #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #snakes #snake #WorldSnakeDay

Cinquevalli in sepia looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas. Half faun, half military man… —Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli” published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990) Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/ #Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #circus #juggling #Cinquevalli