Argument from Design
A line of spider’s thread
Cuts across the lily scene,
Highjacking the flower.
~ Sujū (Englished by Phillip Whidden)
A single thread of spider web across
The scene displaces lily as the sight
To see. The steel-like silk is ghostly floss
And so is mystical. It has the might
Of worlds where angels wander, where they dwell,
And so it trounces lily petals, gross
In fleshiness and fattier in smell.
The see-through fiber hovers much more close
To spirits than the meaty petals. They
Are undeserving in its presence. Light
Reveals the sublimation in the way
It passes through the line in pure air flight.
Reject the thought of death the spider made
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And trembling of the butterfly waylaid.
~ Phillip Whidden