To remember in winter

To remember in winter


The chickory is out
the clover
and Queen Anne's lace.

Cracks in the cakey earth
are filled with spiders
aphids twist their beaks deep
gorging.

Rifts of warring ants
licked up by the wind
legs and gripping heads
blown into a mass grave
in a sidewalk crack.

As soon as things calm down
I'll excuse myself
and get out of this stuffy suit.