Hot Ants | 2010
In the summer of 2010 I wrote a series of short poems which I compiled into a Visual Sketchbook. This is Entry #10
A well-disciplined troop
of some small and some big
each following the next
down into a deep chasm
into the earth’s brown belly
carrying not leaves,
not seeds,
not timber,
nor even anything useful
in any way to these tireless workers
who form a long symmetric chain
transporting tiny pungent peppers;
for perhaps they too found that this world
is a little too spicy to exist in.