Stormy night: a pallid ant clings
\nto slick fibers of a wind-flayed string.
\nToo dumb to hope, too keen to despair,
\nit pauses mid-string to interrogate the air
\nwith antennae restless with autonomy
\nthat try to amplify the ant\u2019s economy
\nof movement with electric filigree
\nof panic, rage, anything to shear the monotony
\nof pushing through the black gale.
\nIt crawls a dead, a cold, a stricken trail.
\nThe ant advances glacially as rain batters
\nits road and sometimes it, knowing nothing matters
\nbut the certain thing:
\nthe other end of a suspended string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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