/I mind the invincible
actus of the fiery ant who
in campaign for easy food
found my colossal arm
oddwise to its forage plan:
/who battled cross its hairy top
to make of me a Sophocles
by jaw and poison barb—
mocking my flaming wound
and sapient stink-eye.
/this tiny rooster offed the plank
of the picnic table, a pirate
whose olympic prank
throws the darwin switch
to acids of a million larvae
close-hauled in rubbery decks below.
August 18 2013
