Click here to listen to Fady Joudah read "In the Calm" from his poem, "Pulse."
Pulse 10
In the calm
After the rain has bombed the earth
The ants march out of their shelters
One long frantic migration line
They hit the concrete floor
Of our dining and living
Space then turn into the shadow
The wall makes, a straight angle
To the courtyard wreckage of dirt and gravel:
Did they know the wind
Would airdrop new rations their way?
It’s always two or three
Ants locking their horns to the acid end
Over nothing—it seems
More than an impulse,
The debris plenty for all. |