Hello Friends,
Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day, and I couldn’t think of a better poet to have stashed in your pocket than Nikki Giovanni, who we lost this past year. Today’s selection comes from her 2013 collection Chasing Utopia and is about a spider, but also about how we treat other animals and our fellow human beings.
Enjoy.
— Ællen
Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day, and I couldn’t think of a better poet to have stashed in your pocket than Nikki Giovanni, who we lost this past year. Today’s selection comes from her 2013 collection Chasing Utopia and is about a spider, but also about how we treat other animals and our fellow human beings.
Enjoy.
— Ællen
Allowables
I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn’t
And she scared me
And I smashed her
I don’t think
I’m allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened
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I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn’t
And she scared me
And I smashed her
I don’t think
I’m allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened
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