A Spider's Elegy

Content Warning: bug death

It is a windowsill service, modest,
open-casket, the legs

pressed together,
curled towards the heart of this

eater of nightmares, flies,
and other bad signs.

The sun dusts the body with powdered light.

_{A Spider's Elegy (2018) by Yuki Heather Morgan is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0}