[PW] ?poem

[Stacey Marien]

Folks,

This is for me, no rush - I have a friend who is trying to remember a poem
she read in high school.  Here is her description:

This is what I (sort of remember): in the poem (or maybe in my dream
about the poem ;-(), she was sitting, at a desk, writing in a
notebook, and squashed the bug, and then noticed its part -- a leg?
a wing? -- lying on the white paper of her notebook. And then spoke
briefly (same ideas but much more succinct than the Margaret Lange
poem) about the life she'd so blithely taken.

It wasn't long. Maybe four stanzas? Two? Six?

In my mind's eye and memory's ear, I can see the grey spot on the
page where she squashed the bug; I can see the wing (translucent?
gossamer?) or leg (fragile? tensile? strength?) and think of verbs:
carried, aloft, free (freedom? freely?). I can see the author with
her chin in her hand, writing long-hand (did she set the scene or
did I?).

Anyone have any clues to this?

Stacey

Stacey Marien
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