As part of my online course I am revisiting memories. I tried in an earlier poem to capture this memory but here it is again. The idea is to contain the memory in a central image- the spider.
PATERNAL GRAN
She was sat on a stool and remembers
clipped wings and stalemate
Outside in coop-sized yard siblings
Squeal Tig-Tag-I’m out, you’re in
Inside spider in widow weeds
And off-white pinny spinning
Throbbing web, invisible thread
Snapped
And Noose descent, shadow
Spread, and waiting.
Copyright with Cathy Leonard 2016
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