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Cricket's avatar

<3 spiders

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Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

Obviously! I considered mentioning Wednesday. Her legs are so beautiful.

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Andrew Calis's avatar

Two things:

1. Favorite spider poem is probably Robert Frost's "Design" -- I'm sure you've read it. The playfulness of the octave undercut by the despair in the sestet. Definitely worth the (re)read!

2. I read a poetry collection last summer that completely knocked me out. It was about spiders and outer space and maybe the poet's mother's sickness? It's written by a professor at some school somewhere. I forgot the title and the author and apparently literally everything else about the book; I've been kicking myself ever since because it was SO GOOD. Like, eye-openingly, jaw-drappingly good. But I can't ever find her book again because I don't know anything about it!

(This is a desperate plea for help.)

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Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

Ah! Thanks for sharing another spider poem.

And now I'm on a mission to find this lost book you describe. It sounds like something I'd love to read, and I've had that experience--a stunning reading experience, but maybe it was a library book. or else one I didn't realize I'd want to return to and I passed it along. Years later, there are several books I can catch the flavor of, a detail or two and the atmosphere, but the rest is gone. Let me know if you find it!

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Megan Willome's avatar

"The opposite of a veil." Love that.

Do you know Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider"?

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Rebecca D. Martin's avatar

I do now! It's gorgeous. Wonderful turn in the second stanza. Thank you.

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Megan Willome's avatar

Yes!

Will at TS Poetry did a coloring page for it, and I made it one of the poems I learned by heart.

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