Words in Rows, Poetry and Prose (2016) is a collection of the author’s writings, spanning 50 years. She describes it as “an autobiography in short takes.”
PERSEVERANCE
There was a spider in my bathtub.
I didn’t want her there.
I got a glass and caught her.
I took her out of the tub,
down the hallway,
down the stairs,
out the front door,
and set her in the grass.
She scrambled away.
The next day, there was a spider in my bathtub.
I didn’t want her there, either.
I captured her in a glass,
took her from the tub,
carried her down the hall,
down the stairs,
through the front door,
tipped the glass over in the grass,
and let her go.
On the third day, there was a spider in my bathtub.
I thought,
This is the same spider, and she wants to be in my bathtub.
Imagine the journey!
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(This is a new poem and doesn’t appear in “Words in Rows.”)
