the edge of a concrete driveway with blue metal inclusions where it meets the lawn and various weeds are growing, including a groundcover with round leaves

Tiny brown guy

Carry that pointed crumb
big as your thorax
back to the nest.

Loop-de-loop the spirals
of my notebook,
gaining no ground.

Negotiate the blue metal chips
in my driveway
like they’re landforms.

Merge under weed-leaf picnic brollies
past grains of sand
outsizing your head.

[Photo by Catherin J Pascal Dunk 2026]


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