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Danielle White 


ANTS: A Night To Save 


A few weeks of casual passion....  


Now we sit and listen to Benny Goodman on iTunes

      “A cigarette that bears a lipstick’s traces

      An airline ticket to romantic places

      And still my heart has wings…” 


Watching a colony of ants on the Discovery Channel

They make a nest to house millions

White-faced and blind, they crawl frantically over one another 


“They’re not unlike humans,” I offer,

Thinking of what we might look like from space. 


Laughing, his brown eyes squint

Mouth, a triangle

Like a figure in anime

The happiest thing I’ve ever seen

“Yeah, like New York, Wall Street,”  


Ants will surround a predator

And pull its body apart

Mostly spiders and other insects

Sometimes lizards too  


“Are you in love with him still?” he asks 


“No”  


Like bees, the ants have a queen

She makes the babies

This colony is completely female 


We get closer

Lie down

Put my head

On a strategically placed pillow

He thinks I’m funny

So I go home breathless

And with a few broken blood vessels