Saturday, September 24, 2011

Spider Bite - A Poem

we slept
in the darkness
beneath the coffee trees
and thousands of spiders
bound us in webs
Gulliver's kin
a poisonous one
bit me
on the inside of my right thigh
fever corrupted flesh
hospital bed
antibiotics
a scar there
where the surgeons knife
lanced the wound
and blackness poured out

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