Relativity Awareness
where wind sways grasses
on a Cape Cod beach…
and fiddler crabs
wave claws in sea-foam…
and piping plovers
pick at white sand…
a brown-gold spider
excretes a killing space
of silver filament
arachnid silk pattern spinner…
eight-legged creator
of elegant design…
synchronicity in motion…
just a small analogy
to computer linking
and tangles in the universe…
relativity awareness
Bonnie Marshall
A beautiful way to write about something most think are frightening!
They show up in my poetry now and then as analogies…such as Annie’s World…my own spider cast of characters. Thanks for the commnt.
Beautifully written, spiders give much food for thought.
Thank you. I treat those tiny bits of symbolism with much respect. My favorite sighting is in Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider.”
I’m not familiar with that, I’ll have to find it.
It will be worth your time. It’s a gem.