A Girl Dreams of Spiderwebs

I used to live in a spider web

she said to me one morning as I buckled her into her car seat

And it was like sleeping on a bed of trembling diamonds

The web sparkled in the morning

And then twinkled again at night

Oh, the yellow jackets would make an occasional appearance

And I didn’t like that much

They would come zooming by

A fuzzy blur of black and yellow

Darting their mean, oil-spill eyes

But for the most part

The bees left me alone

As did the bulbous Black Widow

And the shy Brown Recluse

And I could just swing in my hammock

Floating in the rafters

Sipping the dust motes

Dancing with the cool, thin breeze