A Spider’s Web

What is so perfect

About a spider’s web

Besides the fact

That its maker

Has mastered

Spinning and threading

The star-like figure in the corner

On its very first try?

And that,

When beads of dew are strung on,

The spider looks like royalty

In its twinkling castle of thread?

And that a grasshopper

Couldn’t escape its tight clutches?

And that it is transparent

Against a sky of grey, purple, black, or blue?

I don’t know what’s so perfect about a spider’s web.

Do you?

~Wondering Wood, 3/2009