On the salt plaza
The ants hold court.
Beyond them,
Like a country of purest marble,
Stretch the lunar provinces.
In the empty eye holes,
The villages of the smallest tribesmen…
Their tents made of portable darkness
Their prince the prince of the dead.
Thomas McGrath
Thomas McGrath's books include Letter to an Imaginary Friend, The Movie at the End of the World (1973), Passages Toward the Dark (1982) and Death Song (Copper Canyon Press, 1991).
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