There are tiny, quick spiders
that live in my curtains.
Sometimes they die,
shrivelling in silk folds.
I killed one once
in a moment of fear,
interrupting a key
sequence of events,
like the man who rescued
a baby songbird
that fell from a nest
onto Queen Street,
hand fed her
mealworms and suet
for a month
until she could fly.
Gordon Taylor (he/him) is a poet from Toronto, Ontario. He also works both as an Information Technology professional and as a receptionist at a sexual health clinic. His poems have been published in Tickle Ace, Prairie Fire, and The Bridport Arts Prize Anthology.
