• Spiders are Writers

    From randymon@randymon@tilde.club to tilde.poetry on Sun Sep 6 01:08:09 2026
    Spiders are Writers

    there are spiders
    everywhere tonight
    grandma spiders and trickster spiders
    and spiders padding their own egg sacs

    soon to be airborne
    on silk sailing ships

    there are spiders dripping from poets' chins
    and pork pie brims

    you've got to get past the inhibitions
    of eight articulated hairy legs
    and eyeballs, black
    unblinking
    the twisting language of DNA strands
    indra's net
    whole galaxies caught in the dew drops

    spiders know a lot of secrets
    slip a silver coin in the slot
    and whisper to the egrets
    i remind you, lest you forget:

    i read the spider's alphabet
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  • From randymon@randymon@tilde.club to tilde.poetry on Sun Sep 6 01:08:48 2026
    On 2026-09-06, randymon <randymon@tilde.club> wrote:
    Spiders are Writers

    there are spiders
    everywhere tonight
    grandma spiders and trickster spiders
    and spiders padding their own egg sacs

    soon to be airborne
    on silk sailing ships

    there are spiders dripping from poets' chins
    and pork pie brims

    you've got to get past the inhibitions
    of eight articulated hairy legs
    and eyeballs, black
    unblinking
    the twisting language of DNA strands
    indra's net
    whole galaxies caught in the dew drops

    spiders know a lot of secrets
    slip a silver coin in the slot
    and whisper to the egrets
    i remind you, lest you forget:

    i read the spider's alphabet

    attribution:

    -- by raymond "moose" jackson,
    dreaming in the bone boat -- poems
    University of New Orleans Press, 2022

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