A Conversation:
Con is 'with;' Vers is 'to turn'
--ation is 'action.'
So Conversation
Means 'a turning together'
Just how we should talk.
Vulnerably near
I reach out to touch her skin
Softness consumes me.
Her perfume blinds me
I wish to melt into her
Aura. Stunned with lust.
Unknown paths extend
To follow one takes courage
Thus am I able?
Unknown paths extend
To follow one takes courage
Which is possible?
Craters in the dirt
Little craters--each with a
Tiny Antlion.
Craters to trap ants
Built mimicking volcanoes
Predators waiting.
Crater catches ants
Ant crawls up to no avail
Slides down to the jaws.
Ant quickly devoured
Energy for lion's growth
Metamorphosis.
Antlion adult
Mimic of Odenata
Such a great huge change.
Lion choses site
Female lays eggs in soft soil
Sheltered from the rain.
Deposits eggs one
By one. Not in large clusters
Wings raised while laying.
Continually
Taps soil with abdomen tip
Singly lays each egg.
Larvae hatch in days
Quickly start to dig their holes
'Pits of coned-deep doom.'
Life lasts twenty days
Must find mate and lay her eggs
From case--quick exit.
Clustered in the dirt
Many lined along my drive
All ready to change.
Common larval holes
Always active in plain sight
Adults hard to find.
Named Dendroleon
'Lion who looks like a tree'
Or is 'of a tree.'
Black splashes on wings
Pattern randomly mottled
Perfect camouflage.