tarantula, spider, frog
tarantula meaning in dream: web weaver story teller, wake up with a bite on my neck—no symbol, drain the pus. another time I fall asleep with a frog on the window. frog meaning in dream: embryonic fluid transformational waters.
I took a chessboard from the basement, fishing gear, three chainsaws, winter tires, bush trimmer, and sold them all on f a c e b o o k m a r k e t p l a c e. That same week, you got a barbed lure stuck in your thumb while trout fishing, told me you cried and needed a shot of elderflower vodka. It wouldn’t be good for that, I said, you need something stronger. another time I tell the b a r i s t a you like your coffee black, and you’re relieved nobody thinks you want it s w e e t w e a k and c r e a m y. Because what would that mean about you?
I’m beginning to believe desire and identity are unrelated, a friend of mine says. She plucks three ice cubes from the tray and drops them into a mug of hibiscus tea. We walk to the table by the cedar, where the branches are low and the wind sings through metal chimes. I take notes on what she says about m o n o g a m y. For some people the desire is philosophical and for some its circumstantial.
On a hot day, you warn me about the frog nests floating in the river, they might get caught in your hair and three days later you’ll hatch tadpoles in the bath. What would it mean to give birth to a frog? What does it mean to like your coffee sweet and weak, to dream about spiders while they bite you?
spider meaning in dream: enmesh or cut the threads tie knots for a tapestry only lovers can read weave a life together weave a cocoon to suspend ourselves in. Swollen bites on neck knee and thigh. Sometimes things are literal; the spider came from the basement where you got the fishing gear, its body like a black pearl, crawling the sheets for flesh.
i cant wait to keep reading your writing forever