Comments on: Metaphorest

By: marlyat2

marlyat2 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:35:12 +0000

The Sartre quote reminds me of a colleague (back, back, back when I had such things) who said, “What does the world need with another poem?”

As it happened, that careless question changed my life.

But that’s another story.

By: Anne-Mieke

Anne-Mieke — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:12:47 +0000

No, I have not. That will be something to look for in my lunchbreak tomorrow, thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:43:22 +0000

butuki – Walking sticks often rest with their forelegs in front, for some reason. I guess to better imitate a stick and elude detection – unless of course they happen to be perched on a white background, in which case they simply look ridiculous.

Anne-Mieke – Have you ever read the American children’s classic Charlotte’s Web? Maybe one of the best, most imaginative books about a spider ever written. Highly recommended, even for adults. Charlotte is a very brainy spider, and at one level the book is a satire about the advertising industry.

By: Anne-Mieke

Anne-Mieke — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:20:52 +0000

ahw.. too bad, it was so romantic to see the spider sitting in her web like Rondin’s Thinker, and thinking all that stuff.
The wind, well I hope the wind feels guilty when it blows the web kaduk.

By: butuki

butuki — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:09:05 +0000

To Wobblewax, if you sit and wait in a known spider’s web-building place late in the afternoon just as it is getting dark you can watch the web-building process. That first thread is let out as a free-floating strand that the slightest of breezes catches and the spider waits for it to catch onto something. When it does the spider pulls it taut and from there starts the web.

I didn’t know walking sticks could read, but wasn’t that little guy standing there with his hands in the air, up against the plaque? wonder how long he was thinking of remaining in that position? Or was he just pulling your leg, Dave?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:22:50 +0000

Who’s the metaphorest of them all?
Groan.

the result of his work
Her work, actually.

Granted that spiders probably aren’t able to feel the kind of aesthetic appreciation that we do. But they are probably also spared the converse, and wouldn’t understand your utilitarian estimation of their handiwork, either. The web is an extension of their bodies; some species eat their web each night and spin it again in the morning. They mate on it, and they lay their eggs on or beside it; it’s not just for catching flies. Imagine what the wind must feel like.

By: Anne-Mieke

Anne-Mieke — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:33:07 +0000

I wonder if the spider knows that we, people, find the result of his work so beautiful. It’s sad to think that he only feels guilty about it because he uses it to feed himself.

By: Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:13:08 +0000

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who’s the metaphorest of them all?

That would be Dave.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:22:53 +0000

Hey, thanks for the poem!

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:51:54 +0000

Those spiderwebs are beauties!

spider’s canopy
makes a fragile chandelier
of scattered raindrops