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Poems

Gnats

27 August 2015

1:00 PM

27 August 2015

1:00 PM

after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665)

Their world is a glass of rainwater.
They move up and down through the clearness,
   swallowing their way,
or hang by their tails from the surface:


tiny transparent caterpillars
with their bristled segments of body,
   horned trophies of head.
The glass holds nothing that I can see,



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