Spider Poems

Dew drops and traps

Photo by Alex Baker on Unsplash

I weave and you watch
My web a constellation
Your watching an acceptance
Wanting to be caught
Waiting to be devoured

The Smiling Spider by Odilon Redon

You thought it into existence 
It was graphite,
Not synapse 
Till it ripped itself 
From the paper
Leg 
By 
Leg
Eight
Legs
Skitter
Towards the hand that made them

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Hanging over your head
Eight legs, twitching
Sharp chelicerae 
Snap shut
Fangs drip with venom
Hunger gets
Closer

Photographer Unknown

Fangs and diamonds
Silhouetted against
A gray sky
Waiting always
Waiting

Photo by Igor Sporynin on Unsplash

She spun her web
Across the moon 
Hourglass and eight
How long will her descent 
Take?
Can she stand the emptiness
Of space?

spider crawling into a human mouth

We called her 
Spider Gut
The girl
Toothless, she opened
Her dark mouth
Wide
Legs probing inside
Entering
Down
Living in her belly

Photo by Gregory Keet on Unsplash

Though the man
Loved her
She knew 
He could
Never be with her
He was too delicious 
Not to eat

Photographer Unknown

Water dripped off long
Legs
Drip drip drip
I heard each drop
And the sound of jaws
Clacking together 
As she descended

Photo by Tom Sid on Unsplash

See my pretty 
Round and fat
Pretty sees you back