Monday, June 8, 2009

Radi-Ants


From afar, crevice shunning
Radi-ants came &
Squeezed Concoction
,
A gooey banal malaise,
Best when oozed upon the dawn,
To form tilted sinkholes

that summon anything clumsy
Or round
To teeter and plummet
Over the shifting verge
Into a
Tenderizing cauldron
--
A brew stirred by
hyperbolic phalanxes.
This demon brew culled from
Eager parched bones
Mixed and aged
Siphoned and fed to
Fat grubs
--
Fat grubs that roll and
Sop up the brew
,
Grow and morph seamlessly
Into
Silent flutter/flumoxes
,
Gorging wingers who once
On far worlds
Dove and shat on
Pearl encrusted monoliths,
Massive carapaces heaved
Tilting
From broken crusts,
Engorged hives
--
Diamond hives layered,
Vomited against gravity to space
.
Brimming from pock holes
With ebony legged crustaceans
Busy at getting busy
Colonizing skyscrapers
From below, spreading tunneling
Like rhizomes
--
Shoots crisscrossing and bursting
Upward to shine,
Facets sharp to the sun
.
Yet again these grow, these
Perches to the flutter/flumoxes,
Depositories hardened against
The Elements
--
The pole-shifting
Atmosphere sucking
Cataclysmic Radi-ants;
Migrants off a dying star
Come to engineer a
Third planet
Conducive to Radi-ant purposes.
The lunar adulating star crawlers
,
Bulbous of body, pocked & shining
Their crescent faces,
Tilted nightly to the moon.

9 comments:

Brian Miller said...

wow. never wuite looked at the circle of life that way. great imagery!

Lisa Ursu said...

For some reason Anunnaki came to mind?
"Bulbous of body, pocked & shining
Their crescent faces,
Tilted nightly to the moon."
Yep, I'm giving you 5 cans of corn out of 5 on this one.
Thanks for sharing.

Tom said...

Liza, I looked up Anunnaki and none of it looked familiar to me, though i've seen the name Marduk before...old babylonian mythology isn't my strong suit...but interesting...is there any definitive reading for more in depth on this? Thanks for the 5 cans of corn.

Hey Brian... i guess this is my take on some possible alternate creation story...it's a big universe, what are the chances?

tony said...

Busy Busy I'm Dizzy!Great Writing Sir!

Dot-Com said...

Ah what wonderful writing! New way to look at life :-)

Anonymous said...

Seeing as how they've been round for oh, 500,000,000 years or so, the ants and roaches will still remain, long after we are gone, wot?

Reya Mellicker said...

Welcome to the picnic, radi-ants!

Reya Mellicker said...

forgot to say: cool slide show of the pup!

Lisa Ursu said...

"Migrants off a dying star
Come to engineer a
Third planet
Conducive to Radi-ant purposes"
Just spoke Anunnaki to me. As for reading, try Zecharia Sitchin.