That is the way
I would like to meet the world,
my work both beautiful
and useful,
bringing into any
dark corner a lattice
for gathering light.
And though I may
be feared, hated, reviled,
still, I’d show up,
delicate and fierce,
I’d show up.
Posts Tagged ‘spider’
The Way the Spider Does
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, poem, poetry, showing up, spider on September 23, 2019| 2 Comments »
On Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ars poetica, poem, poetry, spider, Walt Whitman on May 31, 2019| Leave a Comment »
When you wrote of the spider
launching through vacant space,
reeling from one sphere of meaning
to another, you didn’t know then
that you wrote that poem for me.
Two centuries later, this woman
reads about the bridges we are all
trying to form, and Walt, damned
if that wasn’t filament coming out
through your electric fingers.
https://poets.org/poem/noiseless-patient-spider
Fear of What is Different
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged difference, poem, poetry, spider, unity on May 9, 2018| 2 Comments »
So beautiful,
this tiny red and white spider
I forget to shudder
and for a moment,
the war between want
and don’t want
is silenced.
It continues its journey
along the car door.
I walk away, slightly
more spider
than I was before.
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