Almanac Poetry: ‘Small Spider’ – Tommy Mallet

 

 

 

Small Spider

 

 

Repetition is defeating me.

 

Insomnia consumes my nights,
two jobs – both hard bush work –
and family, the days.

 

Once again, I drag four hours sleep
towards a pre-dawn start.
Shuffling into the carport,
chainsaw chaps still lying in
their own pile,
by the ute,
where I took them off yesterday.

 

As my foot goes in,
a small spider falls out,
scurrying across the floor
in frantic silence.

 

“Quick,” I think. “Write about it.”

 

 

Which I do, some weeks later,
in a pocket of time.

 

 

 

 

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