CAME A SPIDER

My name Tammy Muffett

and you don’t know me

but I live on your street

and last night

right after Dean Martin’s song

of wine and roses

and Joe E. Lewis’s joke:

“If I’m standing up, it can’t be me!”

when everybody laughed,

darkness crawled into our house

slinging long ink legs

into the farthest corners,

for my daddy stumbled,

and falling

shattered all our lighted lamps.