The Spider and the Fly

Patient indeed is the Spider

       and intransigent

biding her time,

knowing for certain

       her art more durable

       than mind-spun enterprise

Elemental realist

       the Spider will be there

       in a corner

dancing upon the taut architecture

       of her own dark heart

       when the West, like Babylon

              is fabulous

awaiting with delight 
a brazen ragged buzz.