Vol. 3 Issue 9, "20/20"

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Literary Work

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The Itsy-Bitsy Dream Catcher BILL ARNOTT

Sun peers from horizon sparrow’s two-note song day breaks, a promise of heat sensory start of summer

Solitary thread to guys wire, rope, and anchor line high to low, starboard to port rudimentary pagan cross

A spin, a spindle, a strand knit, purl, reef and square cloven hitches, granny knots embroidered into a matrix

Moist morning air jasmine, lilac someone mows a lawn crows carry on, conversing

Between guy-lines, connectors a structural frame takes form glinting silver, sunrise dew subtlest vibrating thrum

Working toward a center unseen an octet weaves as one, this trapping trapeze an open mouth net yawning airborne weir

Outside our front door something new unfolds artisanal architect construction underway

Alchemic straight starts to curve turns to round, the touch of fly-tied fibers cinched in solidity

Commenced, concluded, completed a hunter-gatherer space in time. Yet all I see is a catcher of dreams and wonder what wonders it holds

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