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Great Silken Net
by Mike Estabrook
with my wife
& daughter
in the family
counselor's office—
windows & green plants
& soft sofas,
conferring about
communications broken
down again.
the counselor's caring,
objective, has her
Ph.D. in something or
other.
but soon
the conferring becomes
murmuring, while
on the ledge outside
the window
a hairy brown spider
creeps sideways
toward the center
of her great silken
net, toward a tiny
insect there, helpless
& thrashing
about.
Michael Estabrook is a medievalist at heart (and by training) disappointed (though reconciled) with the modern world, particularly with the materialism and mercantilism bludgeoning life, smashing our brains into the ground, our hearts into dust. He’s still hoping to find a true and meaningful "cause" in life, other than scratching out his pale poetic murmurings like trying to write in hardened concrete. But he needs to find his "cause" pretty soon before he turns to dust himself.
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