Crablady
By Rochelle Cashdan
Our lady
of the hard shell,
soft butter,
firm flesh,
trailer lady
with salty legs,
eyes on the prowl.
Arthropod lady.
Scarlet lady
in the soup.
Better blue,
sea-cooled
and scuttling,
lady.
Rochelle Cashdan, who started as a poet, taught in inner city Washington, DC schools and became an anthropologist before returning to poetry. She now lives and writes in Guanajuato, Mexico. Poems and short fiction by Rochelle can be found online by googling her name.
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