{"id":1326,"date":"2008-11-25T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2015-06-07T01:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T05:43:04","slug":"return-to-the-land-of-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/return-to-the-land-of-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to the Land of Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For awhile we could live<br \/>\nwhere the air blew rumors<br \/>\nof trash barges up the Hudson<br \/>\nand helicopters pounded the dome.<\/p>\n<p>We could watch the ferry boats weave<br \/>\nwebs across the space<br \/>\nbegun by water and finished with<br \/>\nratios of styrofoam and steel.<\/p>\n<p>There were no spiders there;<br \/>\nthey couldn&#8217;t afford it.<br \/>\nThere were barely bugs, but even so,<br \/>\nthis was cockroach turf.<br \/>\nExcept that one time, which only proved the rule.<br \/>\nThe spider prowled like a tiny bear<br \/>\non the marble floor near the loading dock,<br \/>\na stowaway from Korea.<br \/>\nI crushed its life with my shoe<br \/>\n(no bodhisattva, I,)<br \/>\nsaving the New Jersey ecosystem<br \/>\nfrom certain contamination.<\/p>\n<p>They let me have that one, the spiders,<br \/>\nbut they are waiting for me<br \/>\nin the corners of my new home,<br \/>\nin the closets.<\/p>\n<p>They will raid my dreams from their sacs<br \/>\nwhere the ceiling meets the wall,<br \/>\ndying in my mouth:<br \/>\na bolus of hair and leg and fang.<br \/>\nThey will parachute into my cereal<br \/>\nwhile I am half awake,<br \/>\ntwitch and spawn by the window screen.<\/p>\n<p>They know what I am;<br \/>\nall of spider-dom knows it.<br \/>\nBut I will run their gauntlet for the<br \/>\nsake of my children.<\/p>\n<p>In the hedges, orb weavers vibrate in the wind, waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For awhile we could live \/ where the air blew rumors \/<br \/>\nof trash barges up the Hudson \/ and helicopters pounded against the dome &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[80,84,82],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-cockroach","tag-new-york","tag-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}