1.

Snow is

one of
god’s dreams

ants another

to escape
the tedium

of oneness

the great
blue heron

pulls night

like a cool curtain
over the huts

the moon
rises in spirals

god sleeps

dreaming water

2.

Not what
dreams may come

but what we
may yet see

in this
flickering light:

a breeze
in the bamboo

and ivy
along the wall

entering
the open window

lifting
a corner of

the page
I am reading

across which
a black ant

makes its
sin sick way

prophesying—

3.

The world ends

and the ants
go on

stitching
in and out

of the earth

whispering psalms
of thanksgiving

their kingdom come

–T. Crunk,
Biblia Pauperum (2013)
Accents Publishing

More from Biblia Pauperum and T. Crunk:

• An Interview with T. Crunk by Anthony Blake
• Accents Poets Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
• “Of Salt”
• Biblia Pauperum at the Accents Store
• T. Crunk author page

T. Crunk’s first collection of poetry, Living in the Resurrection, was chosen by James Dickey as the 1994 selection in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has since published a number of children’s books, as well as several additional collections of poetry and short fiction. He currently lives in Montgomery, Alabama.