Peter Roberts
the coming of darkness
ants
fat black ants
everywhererunning
working meticulously
one
begins to climb
the wall of the sky—
other ants follow
they
engulf & consume
the sun, leaving
a raw black wound
Bio
Peter Roberts, a poet who occasionally writes fiction, was born & educated in the Pittsburgh area, where he no longer lives. A complete list of his published poetry, much of it influenced by mathematics & science, is available at: www.god-and-country.info/poems.html. The rest of this website, another example of his writing, may be of interest to some.