A Spider's Story
Audrey is a poet, classical singer and voice teacher, recovering attorney and licensed psychotherapist.
My #11 for National Poetry Month
i let spiders run free in my house
their webs signal a corner or door jamb
perhaps too long unattended.
I let them run free
not because I like them,
they are too different from me
to like
as they spot prey,
create their tiny rooms of death.
they frighten me
but i let them be
they just want to live,
eat,
have sex,
survive.
we all do.
© 2017 Audrey Howitt