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Isn't that tiny
poem about spiders?

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And I'm going to tell you the
secret about this poem, which

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is that, it's not about
spiders, it's about poets.

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It's just called Spiders.

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The eight-legged aerialists
of the tented dawn

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are up and about.

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One leaves a pale orchid,
its exoskeleton on a twig

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while another fly
casts against the wind,

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angling for the leaf
where it would sooner be.

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The silk hardens and
it crosses tiptoe,

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the tiny span eager to turn
mummies from winged crisp

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to liquid caramel.

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They dote on the tang
of quarry, however,

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they nab it with trap door or
purse web or keen jagged fangs

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holding out for that
bronchial shudder of the net

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when something angel-faint,
ensnared and hairy,

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begins the tussle in rigged silk
that can start a greedy eye,

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make gossamer hum, and at long
last, even their slack jams

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quiver.

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It's really a very
nasty little poem.

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