Spider’s Web

by Cathy Drinkwater Better and Michael Dylan Welch

Published in Frogpond 22:2, Summer 1999, page 59. Written February to December 1998.

Saturday morning laundry—

moving through dryer steam

into the fog Cathy

my reflection

in the mop water Michael

brushing the dust

from the Japanese doll—

her impassive stare Cathy

from the Windex

to the Drano bottle,

a spider’s web Michael

scattered carry-out menus

stained with coffee Cathy

groceries put away—

in fading light

we each fold a bag Michael