Aftermath
Esther Greenleaf Mürer
 
Exiled from the canoe,
the daddy-long-legs
makes an eight-point landing
on the lake. As it picks
its way across the water's
sunlit skin, its shadow
summons a ferocity
of minnows.
                      Its legs
strike out in all directions,
then wilt
like abandoned
disciples.
 

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