To help her in her quest,
she’s equipped with three superpowers.
First, an amazing approach
to getting about.
Porsche
is a jumping spider,
Able to lift up to 50
times her own body length.
Nowhere seems beyond
her reach.
Next, her second superpower,
superb eyesight.
Essential if she’s to distinguish
her prey in all this clutter,
because her prey doesn’t
stray.
Porsche is a spider
eating spider.
This raises a few problems.
Her lunch is three times her size.
Packed with venom
and surrounded by a sticky trap.
Mission Impossible.
Not at all.
Because of her third superpower.
Porsche is a genius.
She can map her world
in three dimensions
and formulate a plan of attack.
She can have an idea.
The web builder is blind.
It won’t have a clue that she’s coming.
Right on target
and safely behind those fangs.
But a mind as active as Porsches
can always do with more brain food.
Here,
there’s no anchor point for the absail,
but Porsche
has another idea.
Instead of
going to the spider,
she will bring the spider to her.
She plucks the strands to
imitate struggling prey,
drawing the spider in
to its death.
