Big Enough<\/p>\n
On Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em> But how big must a spider be In Ecuador Every morning I entered my kitchen The spider sat in that corner The scary bit, it turns out, And in the end Big Enough On Gilligan\u2019s Island and in the Harry Potter series spiders appear that are enormous bigger than you or me They carry their heavy bodies on stick-thin legs Towering creatures of improbability But how big must a spider be to be scary? A spider…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36844,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36832\/revisions\/36844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand in the Harry Potter <\/em>series
\nspiders appear that are enormous
\nbigger than you or me
\nThey carry their heavy bodies
\non stick-thin legs
\nTowering creatures
\nof improbability <\/p>\n
\nto be scary?
\nA spider as big as a watermelon
\nwould be terrifying enough
\nEven one as large as a Frisbee
\nor a teacup<\/p>\n
\na spider lived in my kitchen
\nIt was as big as my open hand
\nand occupied the corner of the ceiling
\nabove the door<\/p>\n
\nthrough that door
\nthen turned to look
\nto see if the spider was still there
\nIt always was.<\/p>\n
\nall day, every day
\nAt night it would come down
\nand feast on the cockroaches
\nthat were endemic in that country<\/p>\n
\nwas going through that door
\nnot knowing
\nOnce I spotted her
\nsaw her securely in her corner
\ncontent
\nit was fine
\nWe both went on with our days<\/p>\n
\nI realized
\nI dislike cockroaches
\nmuch more than spiders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"