Ness Owen

Paul Spider’s House

Paul Spider’s house looks
over my house. I know
he’s watching. Pity
lingers behind nicotined 
curtains. A witness to 
my ritual existence. 
He told me one drunken 
New Year’s Night by the 
dying poinsettia in the 
kitchen but my house 
overlooks Paul Spider’s 
house. I’ve seen his 
computer-fascination.
I told him one drunken 
New Year’s Night. I think
we have an understanding. 

Ness Owen is a poet and lecturer from Ynys Mon(Anglesey). Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and journals including in Red Poets, Mslexia, Poetry Wales, The Atlanta Review, Black Bough Journal and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Her first collection Mamiaith (Mother Tongue) was published by Arachne Press in 2019.