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A Carpenter Ant Survives the Industrial Accident

Sini Rajantie

Sunflash panes

rise in rows

on the other

side. A stitched

façade gleams

like the hi-vis

vests on ants,

now teeming,

watching one fall.

He reflects sun-

stripes and my

glass-stuck eye

he draws down.

The pavement-

bound body is a

leaf, snow, ash,

is anything but

the cradled son.

Sini Rajantie is a writer, editor, and artist whose heart is pledged to speculative fiction. Their passion for the English language started at the library in their home country of Finland and led to studying abroad to learn from and with native speakers at uOttawa.

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