"Relationship With a Spider" - Alx Johns
"Relationship With a Spider" - Alx Johns
Is a real possibility
when you find her,
in wintertime
minding three eggs in a cold basement,
alive?
She founded her web in part
on a book you need,
but to move it would mean
wrecking her reason to be:
those little spheres
suspended like tiny planets,
earth-colored fruits
on translucent limbs.
Breathe out, and she stirs.
The string-thrum music through her
feet then abdomen. A Romanian
saint spent sixteen years
in solitary confinement
with a single roach
to confide in, and he loved her who
kept him alive and sane.
They conversed,
and he gave her a name.
Were enough days permitted to pass,
The Lord would have had
to allow a taste from that Tree.
You won't disturb spider further.
She
gets to stay. The way
Love grows
in a cave.
"Relationship With a Spider" was originally published online at Town Creek Poetry.
"Donning Your Jewelry" Gail Tyson
"Donning Your Jewelry" - Gail Tyson
Clasping
the fused-glass links around my neck:
we’re
together again on that infinite
coast where
Japanese floats wash up, sea-green,
cranberry,
amber baubles, beach-strewn
shards of light
like these, sunbeams once dappling
your
collarbone.
Looping
black-chased silver butterflies
around my
wrist: they’re confused by my scent,
losing
their way on their great migration.
Our rambles
to the Canyon, Chiricahua,
Tubac
always circled back to your cottage,
emptied
now.
Piercing
my ears, a matched pair: turquoise bears,
your totem.
Nothing else goes together,
nothing
quite fits together as I bear
our
friendship, weightless now, in this world
without you, wear talismans you won’t need
without you, wear talismans you won’t need
any more.
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