Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Ant Invasion (Malawi, 1991)

As if from nowhere
an endless stream of large black ants
invaded our home.
We had become fond of their smaller cousins
that seemed to kiss
as they passed each other on our kitchen walls
but these sharp-jawed soldiers marched
through every room –
our house a mere obstacle on their route.
.
Walking too close to walls
we risked our feet being nipped
by a member of this single-minded colony
just travelling from A to B.
.
And in this land carved out from forest
who are the invaders anyway?
 
 
originally published in the Russell Streur Nature Poetry Anthology published by North of Oxford.  
 
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I published a new post on my Crafty Green Poet Substack today, you can read it here
 
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I'm happy to have a haiku included in the September 2025 issue of Sense and Sensibility.  

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