Web
Intricate and untraceable
Weaving and interweaving,
Dark strand with light:
Designed, beyond
All spiderly contrivance,
To link, not to entrap:
Elation, grief, joy, contrition, entwined;
Shaking, changing,
Forever
Forming,
Transforming:
All praise,
All praise to the
Great web.





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