Can't escape!

By Rhiannonw

Fri, 04 Aug 2023
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Quivering bunch of leggy legs
imprisoned, cannot climb the slippery slope.
Grasped by giant gentle clasp.
No! don’t scramble, wriggle through.
I’m your rescuer, must impound –
soon you’ll float towards the ground,
thrown through window, outward bound –
thread-like legs will slow your fall
tiny bloated body ball –
not a spider after all?
a gangly-leggèd harvestman,
maybe?
Sleepy night-eyes didn’t see.
 
[IP: simplicity, but don’t use the word or words from its lexical group (e.g. simple, simpler, simpleton etc .]
Maybe this has nothing to do with that suggestion, but the simplicity of the incident struck me, and I often do try to write up briefly and simply!
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Comments

Submitted by Turlough on

I always feel they need a leg up to escape the slippery slope. But which leg? So many to choose from.

And I always sing Born Free as I release them and other insects, arachnids and arthropods back into the wild.

It's nice when people care.

Turlough

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

! I always say spiders eat the little flies up, I don't know about harvestmen! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by marandina on

"..a gangly-leggèd harvestman,
maybe?"

I hope not! Aren't they huge things? Deftly done and a lot of drama packed into that vignette, Rhiannon. Enjoyed. Paul

 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Oh, no, this was quite small anyway. I think a harvestman is rather like a Daddy-long-legs without wings, and only an abdome and head region, not a seperate chest/abdomen but I'm not sure of them! Rhiannon