The Weaver

August 18, 2026



All things fall 'part, machin'ry first

Though steel fast is bound

By rivet, ring, through warp and weld

Still all to dust is ground


Then beams of wood, so finely hewn

And oily, they have been

Sustain a gap where water traps

'Til rot's wet dust is seen


Penel'pe rent her shroud each night

'Til virtue might return

Her act, to stranger, would seem mad

No order to discern


Perhaps the Weaver like has found

Good reason to decay

His sturdy strings, the fruit of Springs

But more we cannot say