Cranium Garden

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Ant, Black and White, Fern, Florida, Nature, Photography, Poetry

Haggard and pithy,

Soft wind yawning, leaves lustrous,

Plumes looming in drear

Where arthritic hands

Punch through the death, strewn,

‘Neath the fernery.

Insects creep and probe,

Below-

Clamber Ebbing Light,

Gallant spores leeching Ant’s brain-

Cranium Garden.

Such is Nature’s pain,

Sometimes,

In this brittle sacrifice-

Tender mist of spores spills down

From doleful heavens.