Balance
By Wade Bentley
When ants attack
a termite mound,
they kill and carry
home only plunder
enough to prompt
more eggs from
their queen, even
as her opposite
among the enemy
ramps up production
to replace those
lost on her side.
Likewise, when
you kick a cat,
her potential energy
transforms into
kinetic, and nothing
will be lost should
she return to smother
you in your sleep.
A shark that leaves
a triangular tooth
in the ass of his
harbor-seal meal
will replace it
before the day
is out. And then
there’s the old