Does It Hurt When The Spider Spins Her Web?
Poems by MariJo Moore
The Simla Review
Published on August 30, 2026
Does It Hurt When The Spider Spins Her Web?
...cutting into her soul
she pulls strands of moments better
left forgotten
bloodstained and ragged edged
these strands she weaves into lines
of poetry -songs -stories
some loose strands she ties on her
feet and dances
stomps them until they are flat straight
and narrow much unlike her path
some hard strands she whittles
into arrows
with which she pierces her eyes
so tears turned salt can turn again
to tears and fall
the almost pretty strands she wraps
around her arms
forming bracelets of memories she dares
others to remove
the fine strands of shame she braids
into her hair hoping they will disappear
into the wind as she shakes her head
against repeating the past
cutting into her soul is not a pleasant venture
but she is a messenger
a creative creature
and so she must
she knows if it doesn’t hurt to create
then she is not alive
and creation does not exist because
for her the purest form of creativity is existence...