Ladder For My Returning

Glacier National Park, September 2005

The spider, dropping down from twig,
Unfolds a plan of her devising,
A thin premeditated rig
To use in rising.

And all that journey down through space,
In cool descent and loyal hearted,
She spins a ladder to the place
From where she started.

Thus I, gone forth as spiders do
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken thread to you
For my returning.

The "Spider's Web" from the Album Pete. Words by E. B. White (1929). Music by Pete Seeger (1982) (Original title : Natural History).

Glacier National Park, September 2005.