Formicidae

Deep within the ant hill
In a burrowed branch of earth
A bustling knot of workers
Brush assuring antennae –
Behold our sophistication,
Structures skyward reaching
500 times our own height,
Sprawling highways snaking
across the earth we see,
Surely the queen of queens
Has deemed it so.

-T. Weeks
(A response to “BOOK XIV: Song of the Redwood-Tree”)