"Take the Spiders"

Marabola: Poetry
Comments:
June 2007
This sounds much more sinister than I intended it to be. What it's mostly about is the strangeness of trying on Victorian-style corsets with Refs at King Richard's Faire, and the sensation of having your breath physically tugged out of you. I'm quite pleased with this, as it were.


Take the spiders that are running
that are running up our backs.
Lace them up and choke them down
down our spines they make their tracks.

Take the webs that they are weaving
that they're weaving across our ribs.
Tear the breath from our lungs
with woven lacy floral webs.

Take the spiders that are running
that are running from our mouths.
Lace us up and choke us down
and make us gasp - but not so loud.



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