Eve's Design

Then there's the Yemeni legend of Eve in the Garden knitting a pattern on the serpent's back, the snake unfinished like the rest of creation, the first woman thinking to add design, a sheath of interlocking diamonds and stripes along that sensuous S, knitting giving her time to learn what's infinitely possible with a few stitches, twisting cables, hers a plan to mirror the divine inner layer that can't be shed no matter what it rubs up against.