From Red To Black – New Poem Available on SpillWordsPress

By Dan Leicht

There are spiders everywhere

In my lungs
spinning webs
casting away each breath

I can no longer breathe

There is a man talking on his phone below my balcony
telling his daughter it will be all right

A spider crawls over my leg
up to my throat
the music in my ears is loud
and I can no longer hear myself breathing
no longer feel it…(Read the rest on Spillwords)