Ant Sounds

Frantic ants with busy lives

in business pants

ground hustle and hang their hives

on white sound

that lies between molecules;

seethes into skin

teeth and marrow -

a drunken bar smoke smell

soaked in a lovers hair

the morning after.

The ants live in loud white

that echoes at night

7.8 billion

syllables spin in space.

The ants pace

turn on ant TV’s

they don’t watch. 

Noise blankets their ant dreams. 

crafted carefully from things

of day to day lives

lived on small ground

white sound

made of taxes and bills,

commercials and fast food,

marriage and divorce.

The ants shit noise

loud enough to kill

the fear of silence

and the brevity of ant life.

Some ants

outside the colony

find a deeper silence beneath

between the sound.

Watch where you step.

Smiling to myself,

even my shoes make no sound

watching the ground pass.