Author’s note: Upon awakening today, the piece on slithering wrote itself.
Ride the wild winds, me boy-o’s.

-Marlow

Last night was the second annual Savannah Slithering — a parade of snake lanterns! And people along a ssstroll, from Lone Wolf Lounge to DeSoto Ave. Free, festive, fun, and mildly alcoholic – one must carry at least one lantern and only one drink. Has something to do with slainte IIRC.

Somehow, centuries after St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, they wandered the icy Atlantic depths to emerge anew last year as illuminated lanterns in the streets of Savannah!
W made our crew our own lanterns.

The sssslitheirng’s libations had no connections to our pronunciation of sssssslainte!
IIRC, there were Druids, Lizard People, Snake Charmers, Pagans and Weirdos of all stripes — you know all of Savannah’s year-round residents with their preferred illumination – lit. Black and/or green clothing was in evidence.

Copyright 2023 My Isle Seat
www.vicsocotra.com