20 Poems by Tom Crider

Selected Poems by Tom Crider

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insects

  • Wasp

    A wasp crawls up the windowtoward what it thinks is sky then loses its grip, slips and fallsto the sill, lies still, then gathers itself, turns, and climbstoward sky again. Now I hear Black Elk whisper,Please do not say “it” when referring to Wasp, who isa living being made by the Creator. Wasp, he says,… Read more