The Spider, a poem by Annie Brechin, published in The Wolf

The Spider is a short poem by Annie Brechin, published in The Wolf. The page gives no issue number. It carries the poem alone, in two parts divided by an asterisk.

In the first part a spider climbs a wall, stops and turns, unsure whether it is in a world where it is safe, with its feet on solid ground, or one where it hangs in nothingness. The speaker says the spider sees walls that the speaker does not.

In the second part, set at night, the speaker pushes arms against walls of wood and concrete until the bruises show where the body ends, which world the speaker is in, and that the speaker has only two legs.

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The Spider

Author

Annie Brechin

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