little Workmanships

Stitching, sewing, weaving, the sewn fascicles... Emily Dickinson's textual-textiles. But what about webs? The web as spiral (labyrinth, trap, circling in, spinning out, coiled energy). The web as 'acoustic' structure - the spider creates a tension in the web to then be able to 'hear' the arrival of the victim. Thus a web is - as such - a construction upon lines of sound. The implications for a poetics are clear.