The ants build their hills
on the sidewalk cracks, safe from
chanting schoolchildren.
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Karin S. Wiberg 
Lovely take on creation. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you. I wasn’t sure how it would play outside the US if the children’s rhyme wasn’t a common cultural context.
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nice take, I am mulling it over
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Is “don’t step on the crack or you’ll break your mother’s back” a British thing too, or just American? I wasn’t sure how far this haiku would travel…
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Ha! This is lovely! Good for the ants. k.
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Thanks, K!
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