Spider Web~

I used to rescue moths

from spider webs

dust them off

pink kiss

imprint

on

paper wings

spreading

through open shutters

I used to rescue spiders

from toads on lily pads

smooth their bellies

fingerprint

on eight legs

skittering

under a log

I used to rescue toads

from cat

moist tongue

flick

my palm inching love line

to the wrist

smiling

after jumps through green water

I used to rescue cat

from boys

stones in mid air crumbling

blue eyes inky with horizontal pupils

silk purr impressions

rubbing fur under my chin

boys in flight

screaming

witch!

I did not rescue boys

they would one day be men

like all men

but

I still rescue moths

from spider webs . . . .

 

 

 

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Reviews

[Lachenille Papillion]

This is uniquely beautiful, like the woman who wrote it. I especially love the dominoes falling in full circle, and how she differentiates between the innocence of youth and the responsibility of maturity with boys and men, and how she removed gender from the broken, with metaphors of moths, spiders, toads, and cats, all the while leaving the gray hue around the fact that the broken can be male or female, and she doesn't even notice this difference, she just mends without thought, with the essence of the compassion that is her soul. The gender is only noticed in the whole beings, the boys and the men, who drive forward the need for our compassion, her compassion, to surface. Nobody removes the self and sketches unity better than Selene Skye. She is a sun along my path, and along the path of so many. And she'd be the first to point out to anyone who noticed, that she's just another point of light, in a collective sky of bright lights. That's one of the things that makes her voice so precious...

[Kesha]

What a wonderful read and write I love the way it flows! :)

[Ruth]

This is wonderful hon :) The rescue to an internal level, the rescue of something that weaves webs throughout life, beautiful imagery and thought!
Wonderfully so!
xx

[Ryan Falzon - Tymon]

Spiders, One of Nature's most out casted and unique insect IMO.

And I love it how you rescue everyone from their predator except the very top of the food chain, who have no predator. Beautiful as always.

[Wildfleour]

And it is up to us to rescue ourselves.....

[Geralyn Miller]

Wonderful, wise and deliciously wicked.
(Just remember, boys have a birth defect; a "Y" chromozone)

[Robin]

this has so many good things going on here ~ your loom is prolific and weaves a fine cloth ~