#13 (things have taken an odd turn)A Black Widow Spider W...

#13 (things have taken an odd turn)

A Black Widow Spider Wraps Her Paralyzed Prey, a Harlequin Bug, in Silk

The city of my birth is wholly blossom:
Spring Grove Cemetery. Even the boy
dressed as a harlequin for his second

birthday, even he knows to sleep once
a silk robe slips around the body
of an eight o'clock sky, dishes put away.

The mother, alone and almost undressed,
unravels her sentences so their threads snap
and drop her tired baby to his nest

of damask. It's the story of a clown bug
trapped by ...