8\/5\/17 2:42pm
\nWolf House<\/p>\n
The summer before I moved to California I was running.
\nFound myself working on a ranch for a writer well known
\nfor his book about Indians, titled from a name by the Sioux.
\nDry, sandy, Arizona ranch nestled against red desert mountain
\nwatching monsoon storms pour in across the tops of peaks.
\nWild horses wandering through the terrain
\ntossing their heads and blinking glossy black eyes.<\/p>\n
Each night I spoke softly to the spider above my bed
\ngave him a name meaning “wanderer”.
\nWe had a silent agreement that when nightfall came I would find him
\ndancing in his wispy web.
\nProtecting my slumber
\nCorner dancer, shadow friend.
\nAnd he kept his promise.<\/p>\n
Someone told me to be careful,
\nhe was poisonous,
\none bite would send me shrieking to the hospital
\nthe closest one, two hours away;
\nBut I had learned how to talk to dangerous things
\nhow to form relationships with venom.
\nHe taught me that what we fear can sometimes surprise us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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