This poem is taken from Stand 243, 22(3) September - November 2024.

James Brasfield Osia
        homage to Osip Mandelstam

Spider, you move slowly across the floor,
combing the margin for the fresh web,
this basement as much yours, if not more so,
as mine: you, with your tensile silk, your instinct
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