Everyday Canvas

Spider on the Window Pane

Prompt: Here's a strange question that might get some ideas flowing. Where do spiders and stars overlap? After all, John Donne found inspiration with a flea. Have fun!

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Spider on the Window Pane


Golden lights
in the night sky
sprinkled, queerly brimming
on a huge inch-long spider
inside its thick, complicated web
living between the glass and screen
honeyed sparkles on a brown body
on the window pane
flickering, wildly strange,
both constellations from different worlds
like the two of us
in our web
one whose head reaches the skies
the other, the earthbound me.