In a Poetry Foundation podcast focused on the poetry of Keats Conley (“Bird in a Drawer,” December 7, 2021), Ms. Conley talks about the daddy long legs spider, also called the Harvestman, then reads a poem she wrote about it. *
I like some of Conley’s poems, and while I enjoyed listening to the podcast, my brain had already been exploring the possibilities of a daddy long legs poem, and I found myself a little disappointed in hers—not that there was anything wrong with hers, but it didn’t go anywhere near where I was going.
