Please Let There Not Be a Spider in My Pants

More than a week ago, while taking a shower, I saw a small black spider on the wall. Maybe about the size of a dime. I wasn’t happy to see it, but I decided to leave it alone as long as it left me alone. Today I saw it (or a close relative) again, let’s just say, not on the shower wall. I don’t think I can say more without freaking myself, or maybe you, out. But I do love the title it inspired. Yes, I want to keep it for future use.

Aside from some highlights we’ve shared here, it’s been a tough spring for me. I’ve had to take some leave from my job because of the anxiety I experienced doing it. It also inspired some writing I hope to tell you more about soon. 

Sam has an event coming up in September at the University of South Carolina at Aiken, and we’ve just scheduled a reading in Gaithersburg, MD in December. If that’s too far away in time or space, you can see me Saturday, at Patterson Park in Baltimore’s No Kings protest rally. 

Above are two photos from readings we managed to attend last weekend at the Ivy with authors we don’t get to see nearly enough, Jessica Anya Blau, and Reggie Harriss.

More soon –

Ginny

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Published by Virginia Crawford

Virginia Crawford is a long-time teaching artist with the Maryland State Arts Council. She has co-edited two anthologies: Poetry Baltimore, poems about a city and Voices Fly, An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Program from CityLit Press. She earned degrees in Creative Writing from Emerson College, Boston, and The University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her book Touch appeared in 2013 from Finishing Line Press. She writes and lives in Baltimore with her family.

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