Poem Comparing Ant and Human Society

Cobweb on my Lawn (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Marc Latham’s latest Folding Mirror poem is about the ant world, and how it can seem like a smaller scale version of the human one.

On the Surface of it, Ants…

cobweb on dewdrop grass
obscuring the formicidae sky
might resemble hazy canopy to a soldier
wondering about life while

strolling earth’s surface

among the alien space
above its colony of queens and workers
hidden order of hymenoptera
subterranean maze has order

Marc Latham’s central site is the Greenygrey (http://www.greenygrey.co.uk)