Maman

Maggie Devers

I see the most amazing spider web

Stretching between two trees

And it is huge.

When the light hits it just so

It glimmers as a precious gem,

An intricate pattern that looks fragile,

But isn’t.

And I realize

That’s what I want to do in this life—

Make something as beautiful and impossible as that.

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