Pholcus phalangioides

Don't worry spiders,

I keep house

casually.

— Issa via Robert Hass

all I’ve done for nine months is travel 

what have I learned? what’s the prize?
a newborn seems a prize until it’s crying

I’m sick of moving house, yet here I am

in a house not mine, a bare space, not unlike

any place where life must spring from a pen

to fill the hollows — here’s a gnat, in the sinks

are crane flies & daddy longlegs, Pholcus

phalangioides, aka skull spider — Wiki says

it's like but not a crane fly, aka Tipulidae

some call Opiliones daddy longlegs

though they aren’t, they’re harvestmen

the air in this room brims with Arthropoda

come clades, settle this latest home