Solinopsis Invicta
1. A Speck
finds its mate
in a thin cirrus of other specks
four hundred feet
above the earth.
Afterwards, the female
tears off her wings.
Kick a mound
and specks
startle in all directions
like handfuls
of tiny lights.
2. The Beauty of Ants
The night the field
became a lake
we leaned from
our canoes and
torched each
black lace fist
until,
as if it were
flowering,
the water flamed.
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