Crystal Weaver

by

Erin Donahoe

© 11/04/01

(Unrestricted Club Use)

"I've recently been fascinated by metaphors with spiders and spider-webs, I'm not sure why, but I was thinking about the types of old mythological stories a race of intelligent spider-like beings would have..."


The old ones tell stories
about how we came from above,
those lights twinkling and winking
in the high distance.
How often we do not know,
but it is seldom, very seldom,
our ancestors come down
from their giant webs in the sky
glittering on their fine threads of light
to visit some of out kin
in the lands far away.
See! There goes one now
traveling so quickly in the night
you can only see her strand
for but a moment.
But breathlessly I will wait,
my crystalline legs reflecting
the light of my far off star-cousins,
for one of them
to come and visit me.




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