Monday, July 28, 2008

creepy-crawly - Design by Frost

I always imagine that Frost's poem design is about one of these crab spiders.



I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

1 comment:

  1. love the poem...and the photo...I just love coming to your blog...I never know what to expect...

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