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(15 June 1944 / Canterbury)

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A few slender lines
of spider silk

stretch
between wild grasses

deflect
and tantalize
the sun’s beams –

like wingless dragonflies -
a plenitude of insects seems
to haunt the lines –

an intermittent
iridescent sheen

darts between threads
and blithely skips

along the spider’s
anchoring

(8 September 2006)

Malcolm Evison

Submitted Date	:	Monday, September 11, 2006
Submitted Date	:	Monday, September 06, 2010

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Steve Hagget (9/11/2006 8:15:00 AM)

This is indeed well spun - a web of imagery! It is a truly delightfull poem to read and very well written,
Steve

Goldy Locks (9/11/2006 7:36:00 AM)

thought this was fabulous. well-spun write. avec your style, adjective use. Sus

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