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