Monday, August 13, 2007

Mantis

Praying MantisPrayerfully, a mantis,
halcyon and tranquil,
perches beside the portal to my living quarters,
its anterior limbs akimbo,
watching and waiting
while the world passes by,
until the neighbor-boy throws it on the sidewalk
and squashes it.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

I was going to write something profound...a haiku perhaps...but then your message tells me to leave a comment that is not profound but rather dignified, classy, and/or witty.

And now I can't remember what I was going to say.

So I will say this. Today I changed my customized Google homepage to have a skin of a praying mantis. It creeped me out, as praying mantisis (manti?) often do. And then I saw this picture and my skin is itchy.

SP said...

Hahahahahahaha!

Jeanine said...

I swear, it was a Frog he squashed... not a praying Mantis!

Ok, maybe it was a toad.

Jed Carosaari said...

Did you write that? Excellent bit!

drh said...

Yes, I wrote it. Thanks!