Here's a wee poem I wrote...

[capri0mni]

Back in my Junior year of college ... if I recall correctly. Which would have been ... 1986? maybe '87. Anyway, here it is:

I feel the need to weave
(as a tiny spider weaves a web
a thousand times, or more, her size
moving with microscopic grace --
swiftly, in the cool green shadows
where the dew never vanishes)
a poem.

(This posting has been brought to you by a spider conversation in #drwhochat)

Comments

hmmmm....

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like spiders are coming up a lot lately! I wonder what this means?

BTW, the one in my bathroom has moved over the tub. It won't be happy when I take a shower in the morning!

an idea...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

As someone who always tried to get bugs and spiders out of the tub before I turned on the water (or else I suffered guilt pangs), I always got spiders out by draping a wash cloth over the side of the tub, and coaxing the spider onto the cloth with the bristles of the back scrubber... then I just shook out the cloth outside the tub (you could do it out the window).

Grasshoppers are another challenge altogether! ;-)

Re: an idea...

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not in the tub, it's over the tub, on the ceiling. I'd have to climb up there and trap it in a dixie cup or something (my usual method). As long as it stays up there, I won't freak out. ;)

smart spider.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

If it's over the shower, it won't get soaked in a hot, soapy "rain." And since it is so smart, I doubt it would come down while the water's running.

You know, I've never seen an aggressive spider -- at least, not to creatures our size. I've seen little zebra jumping spiders pounce on flies,

(this picture is much, much bigger than the real thing)
but they like dry places, and I've never seen them in the bathroom. Every other spider I know waits in her/his web for the prey to come to them, and they are not even territorial. They don't even get mad if you damage their webs -- they just rebiuld them. I really doubt that a spider would jump on you in the shower.