WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN

by Pamela Wax




The ants 
are marching 
single 
file, their annual 
exodus across 
faux-granite 
counters, up 
and down door
jambs, through 
the sea of scraps 
in my stainless
steel sink. I’ve 
been told to kill 
them, a stew 
of sugar and boric 
acid. A sweet, 
merciful death.
But I can’t. 
Not this year.
Especially not
this year. May all
who are hungry 
come. Eat.


Pamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth(Main Street Rag, 2022) and Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Her poems have received a Best of the Net nomination and awards from Crosswinds, Paterson Literary Review, Poets’ Billow, Oberon, and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Other publications include Barrow Street, Tupelo Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Chautauqua, The MacGuffin, Nimrod, Solstice, Mudfish, Connecticut River Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Slippery Elm. An ordained rabbi, Pam offers spirituality and poetry workshops online and around the country. She lives in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts.

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