Poem
Shamshad Khan
SPIDER WOMAN
SPIDER WOMAN
SPIDER WOMAN
She spun the argumentwith a thread he could not follow
perfecting
the delicate construction
until he
unsuspecting
fell
entangled
to
his
gentle destruction.
© 2006, Shamshad Khan
Shamshad Khan
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1964)
Shamshad Khan was conceived in Karachi and born in Britain. Her published works include a short story, ‘The Woman and the Chair’, published by Virago in 1994, and her poetry appears in a number of anthologies including Flame, Poetry of Rebellion, The Firepeople, Bittersweet, Healing Strategies for Women at War, Gargoyle, Longman’s GCSE Poems for your Pocket, Velocity and Redbeck Press’ antholog...
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SPIDER WOMAN
She spun the argumentwith a thread he could not follow
perfecting
the delicate construction
until he
unsuspecting
fell
entangled
to
his
gentle destruction.
SPIDER WOMAN
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