If a spider likes veggies, they could be cobwebbed salad. A spin on Cobb salad can also be valid;

beets can be added (attracting the palate).

This thread (which is read): weaving beats like a ballad.

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Here’s an 8-lined version (written in italic):

If a spider likes veggies,

they could be cobwebbed salad.

A spin on Cobb salad

can also be valid;

beets can be added

(attracting the palate).

This thread (which is read):

weaving beats like a ballad.

***

Here’s a shorter version (also in italic):

If a spider likes veggies,

they could be cobwebbed salad.

A spin on Cobb salad

can be valid to the palate.

This thread (which is read):

weaving beats like a ballad.

Orange cones on a street or the spikes of a monster quiet asleep?

Imagined creatures may include this beast

when folks decorate, dress up, trick or treat.

Recorded my reading of my poem “Autumn”. Here is the link to it:

“Autumn” can also be found in my other blog (via the following link

https://zfthrimej.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/people-in-autumn-think-of-many-a-costume )

and in Orangevale View‘s 9/27/2019 issue on page 23.

In its 9/16/22 issue, Orangevale View published my poem “Shadowed Leaves” on page 18.

Based on the photo in the post before this one, “Shadowed Leaves” can also be found in my other blog via the following link:

Shadowed leaves with reeds gather like a flock (listening to waves while branching aloft).

I’ll post the link to the issue when OV View posts it online.

For a list of my poems that this newspaper published, and for lists of my poems that are published submissions outside of it, they can be found via the following:

List of poems by Z.F. Thrimej that got published by Orangevale View