Some spiders spin webs as beautifulAs Japanese drawings, intricate as clocks, strong as rocks:
Others construct traps which consist only
Of two sticky and tricky threads. Yet this ambush is enough
To bind and chain a crawling ant for long
enough:
The famished spider feels the vibration
Which transforms patience into sensation and satiation.
from Spiders -- Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) (Pictured: The Smiling Spider -- Odilon Redon)
