ARRABELLA THE ARACHNID

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Heat Brings her out In mottles. Alone and not Nesting in profusion Of webs of the money spider. Single-purposed and single-minded, she pitches Her silken tent outside. Combs and cards it, Resting after her labours. The insect in me Mistakes it For rest eternal, prodding The cobweb. She mends it as a fisherman does his nets: Patching, reweaving. The single parent To judge by her bulging Abdomen is likely once more to deposit A new self-image. Emerging as she did before From her confinement With energy renewed and not depleted. The envy Of this alienated species Of ours, at a loss to crack the code encrypted In that earthly paradise Of a universal language.
Ann Rivers

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Heat
Brings her out
In mottles. Alone and not
Nesting in profusion
Of webs of the money spider.

Single-purposed and single-minded, she pitches
Her silken tent outside.
Combs and cards it,
Resting after her labours. The insect in me

Mistakes it
For rest eternal, prodding
The cobweb.
She mends it as a fisherman does his nets:
Patching, reweaving. The single parent

To judge by her bulging
Abdomen is likely once more to deposit
A new self-image. Emerging as she did before

From her confinement
With energy renewed and not depleted. The envy
Of this alienated species
Of ours, at a loss to crack the code encrypted

In that earthly paradise
Of a universal language.

Ann Rivers

SPIDERKU
The windowsill; Grand-Daddy-Long-Legs weaves his spell.	Afternoon sunlight; shimmering among the leaves — a star-shaped web.
Star Morris

the wing-mirror spider just back from the continent — foreign insects caught in its web
Michael Dylan Welch

The Original Arrabella		Arrabella's Home		Arrabella +2		Arrabella +3
Photograph and haiku by Gerald England		Photographs by Gerald England Poetry by Victoria Tarrini and T E Blair		Haiku by Celia Crook, Alison Williams, Maria Steyn, David J. Platt, Catherine Mair, Patricia Prime, William J. Higginson and Owen Burkhart		Photograph by Gerald England Poetry by Sue Mill, Peter Williams and Joan Payne Kincaid

Arrabella +4		Arrabella +5		Arrabella +6		Arrabella +7
Haiga by Angelee Deodhar Poetry by Steve Sneyd, Mark Johnson, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Ferris Gilli		Photograph by Robin Estill Poetry by Steve Sneyd, Max Verhart and Marc Thompson		Photograph by Coral Hull Poem by Robin Estill Zip by John Carley Haibun by Paul T. Conneally		Photograph and haibun by Carol Sircoulomb

A new domain name has now been established at http://www.geraldengland.org.uk/. Much of the work presently found here will be transferred to the new site over the next few months. The following sections will NOT be transferred:

|| Aabye's Baby || Arrabella the Arachnid || Harold Fred Shipman || Purple Patch Convention || Tameside on the Internet || Yorkshire Dialect || Zimmer-zine ||

It is expected that this site will close down around the end of 2005.

ARRABELLA THE ARACHNID

Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 17th October 2005.

Web design by Gerald England
This page last updated: 17th October 2005.