Yellow Spider

We took the twine we used to use

To tie up tight our tattered shoes

Twisted twigs and crooked cross

a necklace for the deeply lost

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Builder with the broken bricks

Mother to the baby Chicks

You Made this world to look so nice

I wonder what the next one’s like

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Yellow spider

Yellow leaf

Confirms my deepest held belief

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Orange Spider

A note we wrote the other day

“To any mice who pass this way

On crumbed and sugared countertop

We must insist your traffic stop!”

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In their defense they don’t refuse

Nonetheless we’ve come to use

Snapping traps and poisoned beans

Far less diplomatic means

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Orange Spider

Orange Leaf

Confirms my deepest held belief

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Brownish Spider

Everything I thought I’d learned

Ambition and illusion turned

To drawings on a loose leaf sheet

Of figs and fruits I couldn’t eat

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What in her do I require?

The face of gratified desire

What in me does she require?

The face of gratified desire

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Brownish spider

Brownish leaf

Confirms my deepest held belief

No more spider

No more leaf

No more me

No more belief

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Purple Spider

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I don’t know where I will go

And I’m not sure just where I’ve been

I’ll reach into the future and

I’ll try and touch your fingertips

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And I tried to outrun the past

But it kept catching up to me

So I tore out another page

And wrote it an apology

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Purple Spider

Purple Leaf

Confirms my deepest held belief

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I wrote the last one myself