Quiet Counsel

I’ve decided to hold quiet

counsel with the spiders.

Their webs are skeletons

of survival. They rest and hang

sensitively there. A small breeze

may shake them for a moment

But they take a philosophical pose:

a stance against disturbance.

They are there

just to listen.

They are there

just to hold

life, its essence:

so they have more time

to live in the heavy

halls of my home.