Comment below with some brief thoughts about your assigned or selected text.
Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/spider-woman
My Grandfather Walks in the Woods by Marilyn Nelson https://aaregistry.org/poem/my-grandfather-walks-in-the-woods-by-marilyn-nelson/
Serpents of Paradise by Edward Abbey
Characteristics of Life by Camille T. Dungy https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/characteristics-life