This morning’s new web

On a front porch bedecked with webs spanning every aperture, as though hung with bunting,

the small, gracile green spiders that have proliferated this season,

today were joined by a larger species:

russet, and about the size of one joint of my thumb.

He reigned supreme at the dead center of his elaborate web,

until I approached to inspect his handiwork.

Here he sings his song:

i’m a big grumpy spider

heh heh heh

i can eats anything

o nooooezzz !!

that monster bigger than me ! ! !

time to make my getaway

on my clever escape-route strand

(heh  heh  heh  heh  heh ... )

(For more fun with our octopodal buddies the spiders, click here.)