Lens

Against the quadrille pattern
  interwoven with the metal lace
threads    
of a window’s screen that
   holds the dry dust of August
   at a indistinct distance f2.8
This interrupter of my view
  filters and obscures...
The aperture and shutter speed
   are all wrong
for this specific  framed snap   shot
    this morning

She (the industrious arachnid)
   has diligently worked
evenings and twilights
   to construct this masterpiece
that I perceive merely as
   a textured mat scrim
She rests now
   and I allow her life and art,
   without condition,
knowing this fleeting image
   lies between pressed pages
   and photo albums
only for her and me