reproduction of
By Jerome Berglund
creepy manor in small scale
capital idea
Just as certain species of ants given ample opportunity will attempt to enslave other species, their victims must remain constantly vigilant to maintain or fight desperately to regain liberty. Social and economic patterns of exploitation and expropriation if not guarded against fiercely and checked through education and equitable distribution of resources can disrupt and endanger vulnerable populations under any conditions, from systems of the most diminutive sizes no less than those largest.
Further reading:
Slave-making ants (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant
Author bio:
Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications
Check out more sciku from Jerome here: ‘Environmental Charlie Browns’, ‘Illusion’, and ‘Civil Disobedience’, and ‘Vested Interests’.