When I couldn't find this on my hard drive I thought I lost it for sure. But I did a Google search and found it parked on a poetry forum from a long time ago. Whew.

MOONSPIDERS

First I catch an image out of the corner of my eye

Backlit by the lunar eclipse of the full moon

And I turn to watch

And there she is

An elegant spider, tiptoeing like a ballet dancer

Upside down

Along the edge of my open garage door

And as I watched her delicate dance

Each step lit up by the spotlight from the moon

Another spider came tumbling down closer to me

Like a bungee jumper down on a silvery thread

With more skill than a Cirque de Soleil acrobat

He hung from his thread

And I watched transfixed for awhile

While I sat there, under the garage door

Watching the lunar eclipse

And then I started to worry

That maybe right above my head

Was a whole circus of spiders

Waiting to tumble down from their silken webs

And I thought of my long wavy hair

The eclipse was ending

And I decided I didn't want to be there for the circus finale