Fragility Of The Web Infused Poem by Warren Falcon

'You point—they say—you lead lost children' - Louis Zukofsky *1


the fragility of the web
infused
penetrates spaces *2


a web
it
was

there strung

and
purled

pearled between limbs

beneath trunks amid

fiddle ferns spun

between brittle sticks


there mute legs

somehow click


tho no ear hears

but

trembles


feels


which are ways

of knowing


but work they
unwinding
beneath faint stray leaves

each strand somehow
sticks

echoes catching where
spider
tufts sough


a
brief
webbed kingdom

such sleights
do filaments trace

alone with the Alone *3


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Footnotes

*1 Lines from 'Mantis' by Louis Zukofsky

*2 This is a riff on a stanza by William Carlos Williams from 'Spring and All' p32:

The fragility of the flower
unbound
penetrates spaces

*3 Title of a mystical Sufi poem by the great poet Abū 'Abdullāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Arabī al-Ḥātimī aṭ-Ṭāʾī. A Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher born in Murcia, Spain on the 17th of Ramaḍān (26 July 1165 AD) , Ibn Arabi was one of the great mystics of all time. Considered a Saint, his counsel is to wake up as one 'alone with the Alone'.