<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551321" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elegy On The Garden Flat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spiders like you've never eaten, <br>born in the night, in out of the rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's the inevitable souvenir<br>of a year spent hunched beneath<br>new webs, spent stiffening shoulders<br>at the minute threshold of a tense cavity<br>- the freshly acquired taste for arachnids.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(A moment's silence<br>as we remember the day<br>we flushed the wiped-up trails away.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We never found out where they came in<br>or, indeed, where they went out. And if.<br>You swore you heard crunching in the carpet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaves died, and after them, the trees. And<br>when the rain came, the autumnal drains<br>would drown at our doorstep. Nature had<br>a habit of being intimate, to the extent of<br>being intrusive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for the garden flat -<br>each saturated twist of leg<br>and grounded wet wing<br> would go there to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Liam+Wilkinson">Liam Wilkinson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551321" data-title="Elegy On The Garden Flat de Liam Wilkinson" data-description="Spiders like you've never eaten, born in the night, in out of the rain. That's the inevitable souvenir of a year spent hunched beneath new webs, spent stiffening shoulders at the minute threshold of a tense cavity - the freshly acquired taste fo..."></div> </div> </div>

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