Lake Hebron in Fall

Lake Hebron in Fall
Lake Hebron in Fall

December 13, 2025

Spiders, Snakes, and Things that go Bump in the Night

             The Spider

 

In the corner of my room, a spider hangs

mid-descent, wearily watching and cautious,

yet less afraid of me, than I of him.

 

            The Snake

 

The snake, perhaps, is getting a bad rap,

silently slithering about, as he does,

and that forked tongue tasting the air, tasting us,

a devil given form, a curse of biblical proportions,

easy to dislike, easy to fear.

 

      Things that go Bump in the Night

 

Things that go bump in the night come

from under the bed, the back of the closet,

in between the walls, and nobody knows

what they are, only what we believe them to be,

the reality of those things bumping about in the night.


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