To contemplate this domicile in air
is to be struck with awe at the sheer audacity
of its design, combining architectural felicity
with military precision of the engineer
devising spyware, cybertrap and snare,
filaments connecting in the semblance of a galaxy
to form a tensile labyrinth of arachnid tenacity,
ephemeral inscribing perpetuity with art as lair.
How can a spider's form contain
such strands and skeins of gossamer,
deployed before researchers had an inkling of the polymer;
how are plans so intricate retrieved by the arachnid brain?
What energies are summoned to titanic efforts that create
orbs surpassing works of human hands, where predators can wait?
An early-morning cloudburst has left prisms of distilled desire:
captive raindrops garrison the maze, to lure sun's glancing fire.