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One Small Act

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on July 27, 2022| 6 Comments »


after watching hundreds killed in the thriller
I find a spider in my bathroom—
so gently I deliver it outside

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The Way the Spider Does

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on September 23, 2019| 2 Comments »

That is the way

I would like to meet the world,

my work both beautiful

and useful,

bringing into any

dark corner a lattice

for gathering light.

And though I may

be feared, hated, reviled,

still, I’d show up,

delicate and fierce,

I’d show up.

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On Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2019| Leave a Comment »

 

 

When you wrote of the spider

launching through vacant space,

reeling from one sphere of meaning

 

to another, you didn’t know then

that you wrote that poem for me.

Two centuries later, this woman

 

reads about the bridges we are all

trying to form, and Walt, damned

if that wasn’t filament coming out

 

through your electric fingers.

 

 

 

https://poets.org/poem/noiseless-patient-spider

 

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Fear of What is Different

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 9, 2018| 2 Comments »

 

 

 

So beautiful,

this tiny red and white spider

I forget to shudder

and for a moment,

the war between want

and don’t want

is silenced.

It continues its journey

along the car door.

I walk away, slightly

more spider

than I was before.

 

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