Hedge Hammocks

I've started going on a daily walk - just down the lane to the woods and back again.  On my latest trip the spiders had been busy. 

Hedge Hammocks

Unseen, the busy weavers
String their traps from branch to branch; 
Their hammocks hang horizontal, 
Luring trusting insects in
To rest their weary wings
In dipping beds of gossamer.  
They slip in deep, 
To roll up fast, in wakeless sleep. 

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