Monday 20 July 2009

it was a spider by Charles Clifford Brooks III

burgundy flora is placed
and eight legs race
from it
across the oak table.

a snow-white spider
the second in three days
she replaces the first one
i killed.

number two is hiding
in a bundle of cockscomb.
one little crystal spinner
at buddha’s feet.

i am a reed
a puff of air
humbled as she weeps
for the first.


Charles Clifford Brookes III

1 comment:

Crafty Green Poet said...

Charles Clifford Brooks III is a poet and freelance writer living in Georgia USA. He was inducted as a Master Member in the National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College. There he also obtained a BS in History\Political Science with a minor in English Literature.

Charles Clifford has been published in over 60 magazines, 5 anthologies, and printed in five foreign countries. Along with creative writing he also freelances for two magazines and a newspaper. On occasion he pretends to write songs.

He is currently Poetry Editor for Literary Magic Magazine. He was interviewed about his upcoming book, Whirling Metaphysics, on the Joe Milford Poetry Show.