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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Emotional · #921307
I was married for almost nine years before I learned my husband was afraid of spiders.
Caution

Walk in the wood.
Swing a stick to clear clinging webs
that turn invisible strands of glue
you feel, but cannot see.

Turn, feet searching
crooked path back through trees,
and you're sure to find the web you missed

catching your face

as a chubby yellow-backed spider
races for a laughing branch.

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