Sometimes
when I pray the words
scurry by like ants
I watch their silent progress
unregistered on the kitchen scale
undulating in their trail
unnoticed until they become
a swarm
indistinguishable one from the next
Sometimes
there is one you see
that carries five thousand times
its weight
enough to feed them all
for a day
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Image: Ant bite carrying leaf photo by Vlad Tchompalov on Unsplash
