{"id":1245,"date":"2012-05-08T21:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:18:29","slug":"spider-by-john-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/spider-by-john-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider by John Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/authorphoto4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1246 lazyload\" title=\"authorphoto4\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/authorphoto4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"179\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 205px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 205\/179;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Diena Grant-Thomson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Spider<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by John Wright<\/p>\n<p>This overcast morning<br \/>\nleaf and lawn are drenched in dew-soaked air.<br \/>\nMy window frames a filigree masterpiece<br \/>\nof lilli-pilli pollen buds and scribbling eucalypts.<br \/>\nI watch a bulbous spider<br \/>\nbeige as paper-bark, build her web<br \/>\nbusily embroidering<br \/>\na white St Andrew&#8217;s Cross<br \/>\noblivious to the beauty of all she is.<br \/>\nShe tats a delicate network of interconnections<br \/>\nweaving no frills.<br \/>\nShe spins beyond entanglement<br \/>\nlabouring to create a nest for new life<br \/>\nwhile lacing, with precise obsessive care<br \/>\na jewelled snare.<br \/>\nIn circular creation, beginnings are ends.<br \/>\nHer life-&amp;-death work<br \/>\nis designed to attract innocence that strays.<br \/>\nThis dull gun-metal day, beside a dry<br \/>\nleaf-curl mysteriously spinning<br \/>\nin no breeze, on a single invisible<br \/>\nthread, she sits and waits.<br \/>\nBright yellow stripes across her back<br \/>\nwarn the wary she&#8217;s there.<br \/>\nHer four pairs of long legs<br \/>\nhave become the white diagonal<br \/>\npreparing to pounce and wrap<br \/>\nthe future in a shroud of silk.<br \/>\nShe knows the fate of prey.<br \/>\nAnd as she waits under a veiled sun, poised<br \/>\nat the centre of her mythology<br \/>\nher abdomen grows.<br \/>\nShe knows her children will be fed.<br \/>\nReady to kill or burst<br \/>\nwith life, she glows.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>John Wright was born in Cheshire, England 1950. Visits to County Mayo, Ireland in childhood left lasting impressions as did weekend work on a farm in Cheshire. Arriving in Australia in 1969, he worked as a psychiatric nurse and received the NSW Premier&#8217;s Award for 40 years Meritorious Service. His poems have been published since the 1980s. Now retired, he lives with his family near Gosford on the Central Coast of NSW. His current book, CHESHIRE BORN<br \/>\nwas published in 2011 by Balboa Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider by John Wright This overcast morning leaf and lawn are drenched in dew-soaked air. My window frames a filigree masterpiece of lilli-pilli pollen buds and scribbling eucalypts. I watch a bulbous spider beige as paper-bark, build her web busily embroidering a white St Andrew&#8217;s Cross oblivious to the beauty of all she is. 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