Dark Matter - Ballooning Spiders

Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a behaviour in which spiders and some other invertebrates use air-borne dispersal to move between locations.

"On that evening, we were showered in shooting stars. They fell upon us, physically. Dressing us. Their silky contrails so close, they bowed with the breeze that propelled our vessel. Our stars had reached her blouse. One delicately tethered from my brow. Her bonnet, a nest of beady, speckled comets made landfall. I froze and watched her face crawling with constellations."

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