The water is cool and calm gently rolling out the colors sunshine and clouds turn on the night. Warmth is slipping away into the sky away from here like a fire dying down. The cool blue daycolor has been pushed out overruled by brilliance, red…

You move like a typing hand that’s been removed from its appendage. Each crafting leg steps with the delicate dexterity of walking fingertips. I imagine you along my spine, cresting upon my distracted shoulder; and without looking to find her, I could mistake you for…

8 Legs Watching Under the floorboards and in the attic, Demon insects with hidden agendas, Creeping out at night whilst you gently rest, The room is theirs whilst you’re asleep. Spindly long legs with thin tickling hair, Malevolently emerge from shadows and corners, Gliding swiftly…

  Out here in the desert, Everybody bites, pinches, or stings. When my hound learned rattlesnakes were bad (I was grateful for the fence between them) My neighbor taught me to Pin its head and neck with something heavy Decapitate it with a shovel (don’t…

Oh arachnid, I bear you or your arthropod phylum no ill will. You weave your webs of tales told, widows and recluses, Daddy long legs of venomous myth, lies that weaklings tell. Nature’s thugs, built for brutality, ghastly and creeping stalker, (Like a few Homo…

Crawl with legs so small like pins and needles pricking, sticking quickly flicking up my spine skitter, scuttle scattering sensation over skin erupting into pimples as you pass tracing fast you scrape, you skip you scroll from side to side you creep, you slip slow…

There once was a web hanging on the post of my deck, i noticed that it was empty. i got my long stick broom and ripped it And to my surprised, came a big white like cotton ball I checked what’s inside, with my bear…

we often notice them as cartoons, as jokes, malicious pranks, among debris, stuck to trash. we do not like them miniscule architects of fear, unwelcome here. goodbye, goosebumps, deadly mites mixed among worthless gems, save for midnight, save for Halloween.    

Spider Up on my wall You’ve violated our much-spoken contract. You know I welcome you into this home on one condition. You may stay as long as I do not see you. Perhaps it was an error on my part I’ll turn away for a…

BREAK NECK SPEED Life moves at break neck speed, full throttle, balls to the wall, waiting for no one. So why should I? I’ve spent most of my life putting others first, silencing my heart, dying to the dreams coursing through my blood, pouring out…