Court and Bower
Rent from DeepDyve- Court and Bower
In the unkept house as sleepers sigh, the spider spins. The sleep of the child is the keeper’s sleep, the sigh of the child, her sigh. In the unkept house the child’s breath clots the keeper’s breath. Silk crosshairs the scope and lattices the eaves. We pack the wounds with it. In the unkept house dragline and filament unfurl as the keeper robs the spider of her silk. Keeper, child, spinner— thralls to the thread and the spool. [End Page 45]
Catherine MacDonald is the author of Rousing the Machinery (U of Arkansas P, 2012), winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize (University of Arkansas Press). Her work has been published in Washington Square, Crab Orchard Review, Blackbird, Cortland Review, Louisville Review, and other journals.
