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.
LOLA HASKINS's new collection is How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar, 2016). She has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and two Florida Book Awards. Recently, she became the first female Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poet's Association.
Latest posts by Lola Haskins (see all)
- Fire Ants - December 7, 2014
- The Great Peacock - August 12, 2014
- Two Poems - January 14, 2013
