my mind adrift on the sea,
when I notice my friend the spider
on the wall near a quarter past three.
He crawls past the clock to the ceiling
and traverses across to the screen
Drops down on a filament four feet long
Crisscrossing the projector beam.
No one seems to notice
his short and silky ride
But I see his shadow dangling
in the top of the PowerPoint slide.
