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# Spider
**by Catherine Buercklin**

I tried to save a spider
from my station
where I was working 
with nails and hammers;
wooden splinters flying.
How was I to know
dust would overpower her?
That she’d be stuck 
in a web of my own neglect?
She stayed fast to the window,
clinging to a light 
she couldn’t taste.
And I turned back, 
hastily,
my own project
taking precedence. 
Telling myself that I was
busy.
But the truth is
I couldn’t bear 
to watch her waste away.