As her pale body rotted in the river,
It happened (very slowly) that God forgot her,
First her face, her hands, at last her hair.
Then she was carrion with the carrion in the water.
— Bertolt Brecht, ‘Concerning A Drowned Girl’ from Selected Poems: Bertolt Brecht (via my-nothing-self)
Have you ever seen such a sweet face on such an unassuming creature? This caecilian goes by the local name of the cobra bobo [known also as the
São Tomé caecilian, Schistometopum thomense]. They are endemic to and common on the small island of São Tomé. They’e often found enjoying the moist soil of the island’s numerous banana plantations.
