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The Spider Web

By Vijayalakshmi Harish

The Spider Web

Two wind chimes hang in the balcony.

Between them, a spider's web,
a delicate existence of gossamer spun sugar
glistening in the sunlight

Yesterday, it survived a storm.
being thrown this way and that, violently swinging
yet
refusing to fall completely apart

Imagine, trusting in such unstable things

And thinking of

making a

Home!

Vijayalakshmi Harish is a writer, poet, and the author of Strangely Familiar Tales, a self-published collection of short stories. Her work has previously been published in various online journals.

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