Adrian Slonaker - Intrepid Traveler
Based in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee Adrian Slonaker
works as a language professional and is fond of opals, owls and fire noodles. Adrian's
work has been published in WINK: Writers in the Know, Ez.P.Zine, Page
& Spine and others.
Intrepid Traveler
Creeping
out from quarantine
on a
noiseless Sunday,
I
spotted a wispy, sable-colored
spider
refusing to shelter in place,
shimmying
through
shifting
sunlight
up
an imperceptible thread
to
the awning above my head
just how I once rocked
to a peak of an Alp smeared with
tourism and snow
(or was it white Toblerone?)
in a fully-packed funicular
when I was twelve
and not yet terrified of heights.
And now I feel as exposed, but
not half as carefree as
that nimble arachnid in
the wind.