[stylist] Spiders

[William L Houts]

HI Linda,

Thanks for taking the time to read this one.  I know everyone has 
threescore emails coming in every half hour, so your notice is truly 
valued.  As for birds, I'd love to have a parrot and teach it lines from 
Auden ("...a crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead") 
but a medical condition makes that untenable, but stories of other 
folks's birds always lightens my mood, which his usually fairly bright 
anyway.



--Bill





On 3/16/2014 7:31 AM, Lynda Lambert wrote:
> OH, this poem about the spider is really nice!
>
> Yes, my friend always referred to Doris' senior hairs as "Feathers."  
> When Doris got to be in her old age, she became more cranky and the 
> visits to the school children stopped as she no longer liked to have 
> anyone touching her feathers.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Atty Rose" <attyrose at cox.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:09 AM
> Subject: [stylist] Spiders
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>> We have a tarantula named Azreilla. She is a rose hair and very big. 
>> Just for those who don't know, tarantulas have hair on them and when 
>> I could see I thought it looked course, but after touching it I can 
>> tell you it is soft like a chick.
>>
>> And they web. She eats crickets from the pet store.
>>
>> Write on,
>> Atty
>>
>> Thought i'd share. LOL
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William L Houts" <lukaeon at gmail.com>
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:57 AM
>> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "A Spider"
>>
>>
>>> Hi Peeps,
>>>
>>> Here's something I just dug up from one of my older, creakier poetry 
>>> folders.  I wrote this sometime in my twenties, and I think it still 
>>> works.  OH hell, why don't I just say it:  I'm in love with this 
>>> poem and wouldn't edit it dfor a mint, LOL. I've written a few poems 
>>> about spiders, as I love the hideous little monsters somewhat, but 
>>> this is probably the best. Comments welcome, as always.
>>>
>>>
>>> --Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>> Sprawled in my favorite chair,
>>> I  found a spider striving down
>>> my sweater's cotton roads;
>>> uncruel, I meant to brush her
>>> from my collar to the floor,
>>> but a brainless finger crushed her.
>>>
>>> Drunk on ideas the size of salt,
>>> her witty legs, those marvelous legs
>>> had skittered her down the wall
>>>
>>> to vistas of heaving; the ebb
>>> and flo of my breathing.
>>>
>>> A ruined husk.  I didn't reckon
>>> the difference between our lives,
>>> the stellar gap between a spider's
>>> life and mine:  and this was my task,
>>> for if it exists, a reckoning spider is
>>> truly a monster, a foe to be fought.
>>>
>>> But she was no monster,
>>> and I was only a man in a chair,
>>> reading, with no ill intent:  and yet
>>> that tiny walker died, a small
>>> color in the world gone to gray
>>>
>>> at my blameless finger's end.
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>>> -- 
>>> "Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."
>>>
>>>           --Jane Siberry
>>>
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-- 
"Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."

           --Jane Siberry