Arachnoscientific Salvation

          ^{a mistranslation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s trilogy 
          through a game of Spider Solitaire}

at all times
a sensation of intricate webs
soft, possibly smooth, and heavy

life does not mean the same to them as it does to us:
i lie on their sweat-embroidery

i am allowed to be upset here
fully plugged in
glistening and inaccessible

i eat everything and i am everything:
a garden of marble
between ornamented walls