after Robert Hooke, Micrographia (1665)
Their world is a glass of rainwater.
They move up and down through the clearness,
swallowing their way,
or hang by their tails from the surface:
tiny transparent caterpillars
with their bristled segments of body,
horned trophies of head.
The glass holds nothing that I can see,
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