Press of Sail

[dukealien]

Press of Sail


See fine quadrangular web
woven between road-sign stanchions
gleaming wire-frame vision
of a square-rigged sail
made real, and billowing
in a stiff south wind.

Conceive its weaver’s efforts,
and their effect: a tiny push
to north, earth rolling
just that bit against its axis.
At which our spider-skipper growls,
“Butterfly got nothin’ on me.”

[Tiger the Lion]

Press of Sail


See fine quadrangular web
woven between road-sign stanchions
gleaming wire-frame vision
of a square-rigged sail
made real, and billowing
in a stiff south wind.

Conceive its weaver’s efforts,
and their effect: a tiny push
to north, earth rolling
just that bit against its axis.
At which our spider-skipper growls,
“Butterfly got nothin’ on me.”

I don't know the science but I'd wager its elasticity rivals that of steel. Nice one.

[dukealien]

I don't know the science but I'd wager its elasticity rivals that of steel. Nice one.

And his raw material for it is limited to dead flies.