[stylist] Poem - "A Spider"

[William L Houts]

Thanks, Sean.


--Bill






On 3/19/2014 9:52 AM, Jacobson, Shawn D wrote:
> I like it.  You have some interesting imagery.  Carelessness of large things towards the small is a part of the world I guess.
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> Shawn
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> Hi Peeps,
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> 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.
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> --Bill
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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.
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> Drunk on ideas the size of salt,
> her witty legs, those marvelous legs
> had skittered her down the wall
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> to vistas of heaving; the ebb
> and flo of my breathing.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> at my blameless finger's end.
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