(SPINY BACK ORB WEAVER)
What a beauty
Watched her spinning a web
For several months
After Hurricane Milton
Exited Florida
I left the evacuation shelter
Checked her first thing
Wow! How’d she manage to hang on
Web remaining intact
With a couple of captured flies
Had to rub my eyes
Because despite the fence blown down
And my favorite Norfolk Pine split
And my Kali dog statue upended
The spiny back survived
My Kikimora
The Slavic spider woman
Weaving her webs of fate
Yet guarding the hearth
As long as we sweep and
Never deviate
From the importance of shelter
But as far as the future
Who knows when Kikimora
Will snip the web
That wobbles in the wind
Of time and change…
© 2024 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
IMAGE:
Kikimora’s hearth and home
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