poem “Ants and Crosses”, a haiku based on the Janet Kuypers twitter-length poem “Ants and Gods” (about envisioning little crosses for the dead ants stcking out of little ant hills if they believe in Jesus), By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Ants and Crosses
Janet Kuypers
haiku 3/17/14
based on the 9/19/06 poem “Ants and Gods”
Ants aren’t Christians
There aren’t tiny crosses shoved
in tops of ant hills...

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku Ants and Crosses in Chicago 3/17/14 (C) at the open mic Waiting 4 the Bus

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading many of her poems live (8 haiku poems, 4 poems, and a Periodic Table poem) in Chicago 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic INCLUDING THIS HAIKU

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku ants and crosses as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic Jaks Tap in Chicago (C, glow and saturated filters)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length haiku ants and crosses as a looping JKPoetryVine video live 3/17/14 at the Waiting 4 the Bus open mic Jaks Tap in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (C) her poem Ants and crosses from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading (S) her poem Ants and crosses from her “Partial Nudity” book release feature live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers book release feature “Partial Nudity” (S, CONTAINING THIS POEM) live 6/18/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Ants and Crosses (originally in her books Partial Nudity and 100 Haikus) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See Vine video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Ants and Crosses (originally in her books 100 Haikus and Partial Nudity) live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE live 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her series of her haiku poems INCLUDING THIS ONE 12/17/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, posterize)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 12/17/14 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video includes this haiku reading)

See a Vine video
of John reading Janet K.’s haiku ants and crosses, from Scars’ Down in the Dirt 2015 issues book the Intersection (11/29/15, Samsung, from Austin, Texas)

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