Poem

Shamshad Khan

Side by side

SPIDER WOMAN

She spun the argument

with a thread he could not follow

perfecting
the delicate construction

until he
unsuspecting

fell
entangled

to
his

gentle destruction.

Shamshad Khan

(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1964)

Shamshad Khan was conceived in Karachi and born in Britain. Her published works include a short story, ‘The Woman and the Chair’, published by Virago in 1994, and her poetry appears in a number of anthologies including Flame, Poetry of Rebellion, The Firepeople, Bittersweet, Healing Strategies for Women at War, Gargoyle, Longman’s GCSE Poems for your Pocket, Velocity and Redbeck Press’ antholog...

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SPIDER WOMAN

She spun the argument

with a thread he could not follow

perfecting
the delicate construction

until he
unsuspecting

fell
entangled

to
his

gentle destruction.