Sassan Tabatabai
Arachnifriend,

strange eight-legged thing
glued to the beveled face of the glass jar,

are you drawn to the light
of the candle inside?

Or are you watching me write?

with those black dots you call eyes
and that perfectly round head,

judging my crude thought and language,

thinking you know what I think,

wishing it was you
who could crush me
under the tip of your finger.

First appeared in the author's collection Uzunburun, published by Pen & Anvil in 2011.

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