Praying
Mantis
by Steve Tomasko
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta
fly; insects, it seems, gotta do one
horrible thing after another. — Annie Dillard
The horrible thing is not
that she eats his head
while he’s mating with her.
And it’s not that he moves
faster without his head.
Well, actually,
that is the horrible thing.
~ first published in Verse
Wisconsin
