Song by Alicia Suskin Ostriker | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
writersalmanac.publicradio.org
Song by Alicia Suskin Ostriker | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

And what had Bowie given Anabin?
There is a song that Anabin knows and Bogomil knows better. He sings it often down in his realm. Even when Bogomil is singing other songs, he is always singing this one.
Bowie has heard this song many times. He has heard Bogomil sing it, and he has spied, too, upon Anabin as Anabin played it on his piano.
When Susannah
Mammoths and Ants
Look at the fragile mushrooms.
Look at the black widow.
Pause with me a moment,
and hear the cicadas humming.
Here is where I’m home, among the
mammoth red woods.
When I was lost, the ants absorbed me,
calling me to the smallness of Earth.
There I heard the song of silence.
Come with me through the miniscule.
Listen, the cicadas are