All the momma spiders who made their webs
In the scrub grass of Edinboro cemetery

Are going to die with the eggs
They laid in front of crumbling tombstones

The ones that are 90 years old
The ones that just say, “beloved daughter”.

Mark Borczon is a poet from Erie Pennsylvania. He is a custodian at Penn West University. He has three children and lives with his long term fiancé Janice.