tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072479063452233450.post5142359900928897837..comments2024-03-13T19:28:05.813-04:00Comments on Ohio Birds and Biodiversity: Bait scent, fishing-line device allow spider to reel in mothsJim McCormachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07444322057532066466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072479063452233450.post-13190905465804922742016-10-06T21:23:17.996-04:002016-10-06T21:23:17.996-04:00The Spider
by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Wit...The Spider <br /> <br />by Robert P. Tristram Coffin <br /> <br />With six small diamonds for his eyes, <br />He walks upon the Summer skies, <br />Drawing from his silken blouse, <br />The lacework of his dwelling house. <br /> <br />He lays his staircase as he goes, <br />Under his eight thoughtful toes, <br />And grows with the concentric flower, <br />Of his shadowless, thin bower. <br /> <br />His back legs are a pair of hands, <br />They can spindle out the strands, <br />Of a thread that is so small, <br />It stops the sunlight not at all. <br /> <br />He spins himself to threads of dew, <br />Which will harden soon into, <br />Lines that cut like slender knives, <br />Across the insects' airy lives. <br /> <br />He makes no motion but is right, <br />He spreads out his appetite <br />Into a network, twist on twist, <br />This little ancient scientist. <br /> <br />He does not know he is unkind, <br />He has a jewel for a mind <br />And logic deadly as dry bone, <br />This small son of Euclid's own.Auraleenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6072479063452233450.post-87099741831816700752016-10-05T15:54:26.379-04:002016-10-05T15:54:26.379-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Katie (Nature ID)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17730655720390625839noreply@blogger.com