Jason Twern't any ant in particular. You had proposed cummings' rural paintings to my "cummings as city folk" absolutism and I wanted to acknowledge the paintings with a rural/pastoral metaphor. BTW: if it is not a lot of trouble I would like Pound's remarks about the pup Rick Seddon McIntosh, NM, USA Jason wrote in part: > Hey, I thought the ant-n-honey comment was directed at > me.