Sometimes, the spiders drop from the ceiling
to face-level between the laboratory benches
like Christmas decorations hung on wire
so thin that it seems like the ornament floats,
and we have to swipe our hand through the air
just above their small bodies to see they are
still attached to the mottled white surface at all.
We let them drop to the counters and scurry
off to hide until they're ready to drop once more,
the tiniest bungee jumpers on a line like silk.
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