Apr 13, 2022
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POETRY
To the Scorpion
Poetry
after Denise Levertov’s “To the Snake”
Scorpion, crawling crusty
a ghost, stark white against
the leather of my boot, a warning
tiny that you were, the lesson
of Coyotito* struck me cold
King of Arachnophobia,
kept me hostage at canyon’s dawn
