Siafu Ants

We think of the terrible carnivorous Siafu ants who, though blind, nose their way on vast expeditions, attacking any creature they come across, large or small, with insatiable savagery and blind impassioned gluttony … the largest serpent in Africa does not escape them: while at Tanga it is said that the natives found them killing a leopard.
John Stewart Collis, The Worm Forgives the Plough
The taking back
of living beings to the bone:
relics to be devoured
by rain, dust.
The battening on symbols
of magnificence, power,
stripping them, equally,
to a hollowness.
The enveloping of forest,
desert—a shifting sea
of blind certainty
blackening the shape of things.
The uncreation. What war means.