She Taught Me About Gossamer

by Catalina Claussen

She taught me about gossamer

It’s everywhere

Floating, knitting sunlight to starlight

Granite cliff faces to precarious spiders

weaving

willows to the banks of

The West Fork

And then she said

Shhh

Bring your children

So they can hear themselves

Play, weaving inspiration into motion

Making bark boats and racing them downstream

Keep a watchful eye

On giggling shouts of triumph

And lizards bathing in midday streams

Of sunlight warming round rocks

That roll away uncertainty

Not found in the present moment.