[stylist] Spiders

[Miss Thea]

Oooh. I'm rolling in it now.
I'm rolling in fluffy fur.
Thea

-----Original Message----- 
From: Atty Rose
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 7:59 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Spiders

She feels like the soft fluff of a baby chick, if you have ever felt one of
those. Featherish.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miss Thea" <thearamsay at rogers.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Spiders


> Ooh, she feels like fur?
> I need a touch fix.
> Thea
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Atty Rose
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:09 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: [stylist] Spiders
>
> 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
>>
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>> ---
>>
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>> 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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