Kathryn Tate Jacoby’s most recent poem to appear here was “Unexpected Exemplar” (January 2015) 

Tangled Web
By Kathryn Tate Jacoby

No escape from life’s spider web…

  countless Daedalean
criss-crossing strands
ensure
the web
is
spun

the weave,

the warp,

wrenched tight

distractions and disturbances…

staving any
possibility
of
peace

the sweetness

the seduction 

ensepulcher 

preoccupations and perplexities…

discontented destinies
living lamentably
woven into a
world devoid
of
wishes

no dreams

no defense 

dilemmas and difficulties…

feeling forever trapped
fumbling through
unfulfilled in a
web of your
own
making

cry failure 

cry freedom

unfettered and uncomplicated…

unburden your existence
unencumbered days
will be deliverance
from the strands
of
entanglement

and escape from the spider’s web…