I found a spider on my stoop!
It’s time to make some spider soup!
                                              Sous vide?
Air fry?
                                                                                                Braise or broil?
What manner shall I use today?
Perhaps a simple quick sauté?
Or fry them fast to get some crunch,
         that adds a yummy pleasing munch.
Farfalle and hot red powder
      makes a spicy healing chowder!
Do not try this at your home,
It’s hard to make this all alone.
Sounds quite nasty, but so filling.
No one’s asked for bowl refilling.
Diners leave quickly,
I wonder why?
Next time I’ll try
the soup with a fly.

Takeaway

Something found our web I see,
Stuck there nice and firm.
Hopefully, this will not flee,
I want to watch it squirm.
This human is quite literally.
the largest thing I’ve caught.
She will probably wriggle free.
All our work for naught.
Wonder causes me to look
who’s this person that I took
The chef who wanted soup Tuesday
Is now my lunch-time takeaway.

Biography: Marian Hesse is a professional musician actively involved in writing and photography.

Marian began taking classes at Aims when it was only a few small buildings cowering in
the shadow of the water tower in the 1970’s. The classes covered liberal arts core
requirements at the University of Northern Colorado where she majored in French Horn
music performance.

After touring world-wide with the Chestnut Brass Company of Philadelphia, she won a
Grammy award and made 22 recordings with the CBC, and eventually returned to
Greeley in 2003 to teach horn at UNC.

Aims has grown substantially since those early days and Marian started to take classes
to follow her other interests in writing and photography, with the bonus of the
outstanding gym at Aims. She has enjoyed watching the community and campus grow
and thrive, now in the shadow of the Ark of the Aardvark.