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A Silken Line

Poetry Blog

A Silken Line

Brandon Cook

In the two minutes since I walked the path and turned back
An unseen spider spread a silken line across it, glistening in the early sun, entwined between a stump and a sapling’s branch

I paused, deciding best how to preserve her work—aware that the most convenient path was to simply walk through and be ruinous to her world, without any seeming consequence

But grateful that I saw—and grateful for unhurriedness as the sun made her sedulous way into the day—
I walked around the sapling and saw how very much alike we all are
Working to bear the weight of so much morning