By John Grey
Black ants on the march,
Green darners in formation.
Basket-tails snapping up invisible meals.
A politician is seized
by soldiers in the middle of the night.
The meadow’s alive with
grayish-pink rabbit-foot clover,
alfalfa’s short spears of dark blue-violet,
bright yellow bird’s foot trefoil.
He attacked the ruling party in print.
There’s so much happening
where people seldom look.
And also where they’re forbidden to.
The botanist is out there in the fields,
observing, face to grass,
a miniature world.
The politician’s family spend long days
in various government buildings
looking for answers.
The botanist marvels at the splendor of the small.
Wife and brother are frustrated by the indifference of the large.
His mission is to leave the world as he found it.
That was the politician’s fate.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, River And South and Flights. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Rush, Spotlong Review and Trampoline.
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