{"id":41084,"date":"2017-08-06T03:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41084"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:25:47","slug":"the-eye-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-eye-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

She looked at the eye<\/span><\/p>\n

of the universe <\/span><\/p>\n

so very close <\/span><\/p>\n

that she hardly<\/span><\/p>\n

blinked <\/span><\/p>\n

for fear of<\/span><\/p>\n

missing out <\/span><\/p>\n

on its secrets. <\/span><\/p>\n

But then, of course,<\/span><\/p>\n

she had to blink, <\/span><\/p>\n

as humans have the need to do so. <\/span><\/p>\n

And when she did<\/span><\/p>\n

moisten her scleras, <\/span><\/p>\n

the universe responded.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It blinked back at her. <\/span><\/p>\n

As she leaned closer<\/span><\/p>\n

to get a better look<\/span><\/p>\n

at what had just happened or <\/span><\/p>\n

what she thought had happened, <\/span><\/p>\n

she realized something.<\/span><\/p>\n

She blinked. <\/span><\/p>\n

The universe blinked. <\/span><\/p>\n

What she thought she was observing <\/span><\/p>\n

was actually observing her, too. <\/span><\/p>\n

That’s when a small bunch <\/span><\/p>\n

of the lush, long eyelashes<\/span><\/p>\n

in the eye of the universe <\/span><\/p>\n

began to pull themselves away from the lid, <\/span><\/p>\n

away from the others. <\/span><\/p>\n

But as she peered closer, <\/span><\/p>\n

she saw that the moving bunch of eyelashes <\/span><\/p>\n

were not eyelashes at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Rather, they were eight nimble legs<\/span><\/p>\n

of a spider <\/span><\/p>\n

stirring as it awakened from its nap. <\/span><\/p>\n

How long had the spider been there? <\/span><\/p>\n

How long was her nap? <\/span><\/p>\n

Had the blinking disturbed this spider’s slumber? <\/span><\/p>\n

The spider pulled herself up<\/span><\/p>\n

in her gossamer spidery elegance <\/span><\/p>\n

and began to walk <\/span><\/p>\n

out of the rainbow projecting eye of the universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She did so without ever blinking or looking back. <\/span><\/p>\n

The eye of the universe and the girl blinked simultaneously <\/span><\/p>\n

as the spider climbed out into the starry night sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

She would never know her grace had been observed, <\/span><\/p>\n

she was indeed undisturbed.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Mary Gabis<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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