Summer Spiderwebs

". . . designs
fairer than the spider’s most intricate web . . ."
~ Denise Levertov ~

Early Summer Spiderweb ~ 2022
(one of our last days in Indiana)

Late Summer Spiderweb ~ 2021
(thanks to my sister Peggy for this pic)

Like Spokes on a Bicycle Wheel
(September 3, 2020)

Autumnal
spiderwebs ~ gossamer ~ instatoon

and all kinds of spiders:
fun ~ sinister ~ literary

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Walking Through A Spider Web

I believed only air
stretched between the dogwood

and the barberry: another
thoughtless human assumption

sidetracking the best story
this furrow spider knew to spin.

And, trying to get the sticky
filament off my face, I must look,

to the neighbors, like someone
being attacked by his own nervous

system, a man conducting an orchestra
of bees. Or maybe it’s only the dance

of human history I’m reenacting:
caught in his own careless wreckage,

a man trying to extricate himself,
afraid to open his eyes.

by Jeff Worley
American poet, from Wichita, Kansas
previous poet laureate of Kentucky

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This spider had invisibly expanded
her web between the two black railings
and appeared to be suspended in mid - air!
We wanted her intricate design to last forever,
but of course it didn't -- not even a week.

On the tour bus, across the seat