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Ashley Keyser reads her poem, “Ant in Amber”.
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Ashley:
https://www.ashleykeyser.com/
Thanks for watching Ours Poetica, which is produced by Complexly. If you want to keep imagining the world complexly with us, check out Bizarre Beasts. Once a month, hosts Hank Green and Sarah Suta introduce you to a new bizarre beast and explore what makes these animals so weird to us. From birds whose babies have claws on their wings, to lizards with glowing bones, the show examines the how and why of some of the world's most amazingly strange critters. And if you want to take a bizarre beast home, check out the Bizarre Beasts pin club!
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Hi I'm Ashley Keyser and I'll be reading my poem Ant in Amber.
If you ever come across a piece of amber you can rub it on your sweater and it will pick up a static electric charge.
For me for awhile, the thought of an ant trapped inside amber was a charged image and I didn't know why so I wrote this poem about it.
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Ant in Amber
Electric ember
can't remember the sap, the honey-
slow burble I suck
avidly. Double be, hundred me,
I'd bear my likeness
as I bear this
memory—wood, resin, river
silt. Slept
a century safe-kept, mated
by a heat that froze
my mandibles. They clasp
a light made glass.
Tiger-iris, me the pupil
learning history
is density. Bride, bare
your throat. You palaces
burning at the bottom of the sea,
fathom me.