Waiting Game

By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 03, 2025

 

Waiting Game

River room
Looking down on the garden
And concrete sluice
This summer of little rain
A mostly dry bed
In spring
Raging torrent
Where we dine
Summer suppers
View of nature
Trees beginning to turn
Now early September
Too cold in winter
Spiders cling to windows
Our silent companions
Active when spinning webs
Then dormant
The big one
Hasn’t moved in days
Perhaps weeks
Patient for prey
The errant bugs
Snared in sticky silk
Tiny cocoons
Saved for later meals
In dead of winter
How I admire its
Stillness
Tao of doing nothing
So it would seem
Life of contemplation
Simulating meditation
Paradigm of enlightenment
Parable of the creature
God’s creation
Art of doing nothing
Content to sit and wait