Mimesis (Monday Poem)

 By Fady Joudah

 

My daughter

wouldn’t hurt a spider
That had nested

Between her bicycle handles
For two weeks
She waited
Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said
It will simply know
This isn’t a place to call home
And you’d get to go biking

She said that’s how others
Become refugees isn’t it?

from Alight by Fady Joudah

Copper Canyon Press, 2013