Lockdown Gardens: "Set with raindrops"

By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Set with raindrops, displayed
between the king’s mantle and the litchi tree,
was the cobweb I almost walked into.

After an hour, when I returned,
the light had changed, the raindrops
were smaller, the glitter had gone,

and there was no sign of the occupant.

Copyright Credit: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra , from "Lockdown Garden: An Excerpt" from Harvard Review Online. Copyright ©  2023 by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.  Reprinted by permission of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.
Source: Harvard Review Online (Harvard Review, 2023)