Over the
horizon
Billion
ants held their mandibles across the earth to knot
that spread to include all beings in a cozy set up
buoyant in the
perilous journey across the blasé sun.
Human, a
casual presence in an indifferent universe,
sights the
eye of an aloof black hole
stupefied
by insignificance in the churning darkness.
A bottomless
abyss of matter and time
and the nodding
squint of praying mantis silhouetting
on the window
sill