Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Curator's Post Reminds Me of My Favorite Description of a Spider (Guest Poet)

The Spider holds a Silver Ball
In unperceived Hands -
And dancing softly to Himself
His Yarn of Pearl - unwinds -

He plies from Nought to Nought -
In unsubstantial Trade -
Supplants our Tapestries with his -
In half the period -

An Hour to rear supreme
His Continents of Light
Then dangle from the Housewife's Broom -
His Boundaries - forgot -

-Emily Dickinson

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