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