The Yakima Coffeehouse Poets, a nonprofit formed in 2014 to represent the interests of poets and poetry lovers in Central Washington, is the organization behind this monthly poetry column, which runs the first Sunday of every month. It features inland Washington poets and poems selected from Poet’s Brew and the monthly Yakima Coffeehouse Poets open mic. Learn more about the organization at www.
yakimacoffeehousepoets.com and www.facebook.
com/YakimaCoffeeHousePoets . Susan Rae Sampson is a classical baby boomer, born in 1947. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, with honors in English and law 1974.
She practiced courtroom law in the Seattle area for 35 years. She is an associate editor of the Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, works with Write on the River in Wenatchee, and has been a regular contributor to the Good Life magazine for several years. Her "A Book of Birds," won the first chapbook award from Wild Leek Press.
In November, she will become a certified master gardener through the Washington State University Extension Service. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, she is the wife of one, mother of two and grandmother of three. I’m startled to see you, quick-moving creature trying to climb the vitreous sides of my bathroom sink.
For a moment, you scare me — You’re packed with venom you might escape. But a one-inch body can’t carry much, not like your foot -long jungle cousin’s punch. A closer look shows thirty long legs, a fringe as pretty as Chantilly lace, .
