The world inside a sidewalk crack,

flowers looming like trees.

Citizen ants that march in line

beneath warrior bees.

Raindrops crash down like boulders

in a torrential flood.

Green life crawls out from underneath

the vast expanse of mud.

The sun, blistering high above.

The ground begins to heat.

Ants scurry to shade, lest they burn

all their six little feet.

A glinting silver trinket

nestled deep inside the crack –

somebody’s lost treasure

they may never get back.