Christina E. Petrides
Spider legs wave
over bones slowly rising
out of huge webbed coffin holes.
Thin jointed pipes inject
grey syrup into forms,
bricking up the sky with hives,
antennae buried deep.
Glued in place to desiccate,
they glitter empty-eyed—
nests of frantic drones
rearranging toxic sand.
An American expatriate, Christina E. Petrides lives and works on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. More than a score of her poems have appeared in various periodicals over the last two years. Her first children’s book, Blueberry Man, was published in 2020 by Tchaikovsky Family Books.
