Spider by Neil Ellman

sculpture by Louise Bourgeois

Spider
 
What the spider sees
through eight-fold eyes
is eight of everything--
eight moons crossing
the sky at night                       
discontented with
their place in time;
eight suns rising from
the sea at dawn
to race the day to dusk
as if they were certain
to rise again’
eight shadows from
a line of trees
with eight birds calling
songs of eight
in perfect harmony;
eight of everything
but itself alone
upon the grass.

Neil Ellman
 
Neil Ellman, a poet from New Jersey, has published numerous poems, more than 850 of which are ekphrastic, in print and online journals, anthologies and chapbooks throughout the world.  He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net.