SpiderMurphy

Tess still away, me still getting over "man flu". And was lacking in inspiration ...... until this fellow paid a visit to our bathroom .Lucky neither Christina or Tess were here as both have a fear for this lovely and misunderstood member of gods little creatures

Autumn Spider
The spider in the bath
is stubborn. What drives him
up the glacial curve
to the point of losing traction?
He sees that walking upright
on the planet is perverse, condemns
to an infinite circularity ?
how odd to live
with your head stuck in the blue,
to dangle upside down,
absorbed as a fly sucking
on a sugar-weeping apple.
In daring aerial experiments
he explores alternative perspectives
sustained by impossibly thin
ropes. Studies the obscenely
hairy, downcast human
crowns and the queer way
their limbs flick forwards.
His dream is to complete his arc
and walk upon the stars.
poem by Henry Marsh





It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
- George Bernard Shaw