9/5/12

a picture & a poem: vachel lindsay


The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly - Vachel Lindsay
--------------
Once I loved a spider
When I was born a fly,
A velvet-footed spider
With a gown of rainbow-dye.
She ate my wings and gloated.
She bound me with a hair.
She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.

(poem source)

No comments:

Post a Comment