A SPUN
ILLUSION
A few slender
lines
of spider
silk
stretch
between wild
grasses
deflect
and
tantalize
the sun’s beams
–
like wingless dragonflies
-
a plenitude of insects
seems
to haunt the lines
–
an
intermittent
iridescent
sheen
darts between
threads
and blithely
skips
along the
spider’s
anchoring
Malcolm Evison
8 September 2006