An Ant’s Strange Guest
by Jane McKie
An Ant’s Strange Guest - Jane McKie
An Ant’s Strange Guest
I will roll this larva of
the Large Blue Butterfly
back to my house where
I will cherish it
as a barren woman
would love a foundling.
It’s true I see the sun
in its folds of skin, smell honey
when it stretches.
I want to be the space
it fills, this grub
of a fat new beginning.
from From The Wonder Book of Would You Believe It? (Mariscat, 2016), © Jane McKie 2016, used by permission of the author