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Spiderweb
Graham Murtaugh

Thin as old fishing line
and twice as tough,
this empty web
caught in low branches
nets a constellation
of rain-made stars,
unnoticed
but for intuition’s tickle
lifting my eyes
to witness the impossible
filaments weaving
a firmament of light.

—
Graham Murtaugh is a licensed mental health counselor and unlicensed poet writing from the ancestral lands of the Puyallup people in what is now Tacoma, WA. He has published in several journals and released a chapbook, There Is No Safety (Self-Titled Press, 2013).

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