Surely a spider’s beauty includes its ability to stay hidden in plain sight.
A venusta orchard spider, for example, often shows the taller world an intricately patterned bottom side that blends well to the background of its shrub-spun web.
And those of us who would glimpse a distinctly different side of the spider
must take a knee before it …
decreasing, so to speak, to witness its increase.
The vision, then, is ours.
For, seen or not, the spider carries on in its usual way — spidering.
And we decide, based on how we go about seeing, how to be ourselves.
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