A Centaur In Its Dragon World
Mar. 9th, 2022 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThere was an ant walking across the lid of the bread bin. Just the one. Do ants hibernate? I don't know, but you don't see them in the house in winter so I take their reappearance as yet another sign of spring.
("The ant's a centaur in its dragon world," wrote Ezra Pound.)
I picked this one up and helped it outside. It'll be back- or its comrades will. I've never figured how they get into the house, but I suppose there may be multiple entry points. The ant senses food- because its senses are super senses compared to ours- then follows the resonance down a crack in the wall- like a caver, like a spelunker. It has no fear but goes where it has to go, speeding along on its six little legs, in service to the collective...
Ants are brilliant.
("The ant's a centaur in its dragon world," wrote Ezra Pound.)
I picked this one up and helped it outside. It'll be back- or its comrades will. I've never figured how they get into the house, but I suppose there may be multiple entry points. The ant senses food- because its senses are super senses compared to ours- then follows the resonance down a crack in the wall- like a caver, like a spelunker. It has no fear but goes where it has to go, speeding along on its six little legs, in service to the collective...
Ants are brilliant.
