REAPER EXHIBITION

REAPER

OBSERVER FROM ANOTHER PLANET
WATCHING THE LARGE IGNORE THE SMALL
HOW COULD THEY SO EASILY FORGET?
IN THE ABSENCE OF EACH-OTHER, THEY ARE NOTHING AT ALL

I DREAM ABOUT
CREEPING OUT
OF WORM HOLES LINED WITH LUMINESCENT WEBS
KNITTING SILK CONSTELLATIONS
BY INTERTWINING ORGAN-THREADS
I WAKE UP AND WEAVE THIS ENDLESS LACE
AMONGST THE NEBULAS WITHIN MY HEAD

I DON’T KNOW IF GOD IS A SPIDER
I DON’T THINK THERE IS A HIGHER GOD AT ALL
BUT I KNOW THAT A SPIDER IS AN UNCONVENTIONAL GOD
CRAFTING THE REALMS
IN WHICH THEY CRAWL

I SPY ON OTHER ORGANISMS
THEIR MAGIC IS NO SECRET TO ME
DANCING WITH THE WIND
THEY ARE FREE FROM VANITY
RESTLESS LIGHTNING FLOODS THE SKY
LIKE ELECTRIC EXOSKELETON LIMBS
I WANT THE ARACHNIDS TO KNOW THAT I NOTICE
HOW BEAUTIFULLY THEY PLUCK THEIR HARPS AND SING
MOST HUMANS DO NOT CARE TO LISTEN
DESTROYING STRINGS THAT MEAN NO HARM
WHY CAN’T YOU STAND TO SEE THEM GLISTEN?
HOW ARE YOU SO BLIND TO THEIR CHARM?

IF SPIDERS WERE ANGELS
WE WOULD SMASH THEIR HALOS
AND IGNORE THEIR DELICATE WINGS
I WEEP AT THE THOUGHT OF THEIR MISUNDERSTOOD EXISTENCE
FOR I HAVE FELT HOW SILENCING STINGS

ARCHITECTS OF WORLDS UNTOLD
BEFORE OUR UNSEEING GAZES
THEIR MULTIVERSE MAZES UNFOLD
ARE THEY WITHIN OURS? ARE WE WITHIN THEIRS?
A SIMPLE ANSWER
OUR EXISTENCE IS SHARED

MOLTEN RAIN DROPS
MELT ON MY CHEEK BONES
THE ETHER CRIES UPON HER CRUMBLING HOMES
THE INFINITE ECOSYSTEMS IN WHICH WE ARE EMBEDDED
ARE COLLECTIVELY BEGGING FOR OUR EGOS TO BE SHREDDED
WE PLACE DISCONNECTED EXCEPTIONS UPON OURSELVES
DISREGARDING THE INTERSECTIONS OF ALL ELSE
ANTHROPOCENTRISM REINFORCES OUR DISTANCE
YET HUMANITY EXPECTS TO REMAIN IN EXISTENCE

IF I COULD COMMUNICATE WITH THE HUMBLE SPIDERS
I’D THANK THEM FOR THEIR TAPESTRY REMINDERS
OF OUR FINITE PLACE IN TIME AND SPACE
IN HUBRIS, HUMANS OFTEN FORGET
THE WEB OF LIFE ON WHICH WE'RE SET
IS BUT A THREAD
IN NATURE'S VAST EXPANSE

GODS ONLY EXIST WITHIN OTHER CREATURES
WHY DO HUMANS CHOOSE TO BE REAPERS?