07-19-2021, 05:30 PM
(06-23-2021, 09:20 PM)dukealien Wrote: Spider SpiritThe part from 'flat tile.....angel's way' comes as a surprise, almost an epiphany.
tiny spider crossed
deeply-patterned rug
negotiating each plateau
without anticipating
its next obstacle:
had it learned that system when
insect-striving gained rug’s end
flat tiles extending
out of touch, unending
freedom like an angel’s way?
When I first read it, I thought that the unending freedom came to the spider at the end (which I think is a better image), but on subsequent reading it appears that it was a previous experience of that freedom which made the spider unprepared to meet its next obstacle.
Both tell stories, each different.


