A spidernet-
What finely woven bridge
Between two trees!
What fragile thoughts connecting
The two dark outlines of reality!

One cypress tree next to the other
And inbetween a burning sky-
As nature's woven web of words,
Suspended in the air,
Is asking the unanswered question:
WHY?

Bettina Brendel, Dec. 2003

Summer Abstract Poem