Haiku Swarm
Path
Black beetles crackle
Beneath my tan, sandaled feet
My life marked like ink
Rules of the Rodeo
Rough dusty cowboys
Ants topple black carcasses
fighting for the prize
Laws of Nature
Gap-toothed dragonflies
whirling through branch obstacles
dodge the lizard net
Unrequited Love
We desire sweat and buzz
Work to be noticed and not
Hail our queen…and die
— Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence has recent poems appearing in Eye to the Telescope, Altered Reality Magazine, Popcorn Press’s Lupine Lunes anthology, Rattle (online), Crow Hollow 19, haikuniverse, and other venues. She won third place in the Short Form division of the 2016 Science Fiction Poetry Association contest. Kathleen was Poet of the Week at Poetry Super Highway during January 2017.
Editor’s Notes: The image is a collage of a scarab beetle, black ants (shutterstock), and a dragonfly (Pixabay).