{"id":33898,"date":"2016-05-18T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-outhouse-spider\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:01:58","slug":"writers-weir-outhouse-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-outhouse-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers’ Weir: Outhouse Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"

You live with a part of me<\/em><\/p>\n

I cannot keep company with.<\/em><\/p>\n

Among snorts, sprays and smells,<\/em><\/p>\n

after disrobing and unloading,<\/em><\/p>\n

I leave you each morning<\/em><\/p>\n

with yesterday\u2019s remnants<\/em><\/p>\n

in the weather-beaten shanty.<\/em><\/p>\n

What do my guests say about their guide<\/em><\/p>\n

hairy webmaster, capturer, torturer<\/em><\/p>\n

of crane fly and no-see-um?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do they say my cooking isn\u2019t worthy<\/em><\/p>\n

of this chat room\u2019s cache?<\/em><\/p>\n

You, the pharaoh\u2019s curse, scurry across<\/em><\/p>\n

faded newspaper and frighten <\/em><\/p>\n

the fairer sex in broad daylight.<\/em><\/p>\n

A bitten bun, a stung cheek,<\/em><\/p>\n

your stingy payback for free room and board?<\/em><\/p>\n

Might you rather spend time<\/em><\/p>\n

on a #14 short shank<\/em><\/p>\n

instead of caretaking the john house? <\/em><\/p>\n

At night, stars burning overhead,<\/em><\/p>\n

you spin a carousel in the sheltered corner,<\/em><\/p>\n

negotiate flight patterns<\/em><\/p>\n

of winged wonders,<\/em><\/p>\n

live your life in wait.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the faint of heart<\/em><\/p>\n

a vigil across the dark path<\/em><\/p>\n

to the throne is halted short.<\/em><\/p>\n

With only night vision, a noise<\/em><\/p>\n

from the black forest turns them back.<\/em><\/p>\n

You\u2019re left only with fading footsteps<\/em><\/p>\n

and a muffled fart.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cOuthouse Spider\u201d is the title poem in Jack Campbell\u2019s newest collection of poems, available in Southeast bookstores. Campbell lives in Excursion Inlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You live with a part of me I cannot keep company with. Among snorts, sprays and smells, after disrobing and unloading, I leave you each morning with yesterday\u2019s remnants in the weather-beaten shanty. What do my guests say about their guide<\/a> hairy webmaster, capturer, torturer of crane fly and no-see-um? Do they say my cooking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33898"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}