by Ethel Mortenson Davis
The desert tarantula
ambles across
the roadways
and wide open lands
in late summer
when the monsoons
are done,
during the mating season.
Perhaps
they can show
us how to put
our ladders against
the sky
so we can climb
out of this place,
ladders made
of silk and that hang
on nothing, so
we can climb
out of our hole.
I get close
to one tarantula
but he gets
in his warrior stance,
ready to strike.
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