after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665)
A warm wall, heavy leaves, hard green grapes
and a cluster of berries
spun out of cobweb.
They were packed with brown roe, or, later,
an anarchy of hatchlings,
scattering crawlers
scarce larger than the eggs they once were,
two eye-dots on a body
the shape of an egg.
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