The Flood

[addy]

Commenting on the edit

V.2. complete rewrite

They pass the halls of root and stone
jaws opened weeks before. I like the sentiment itself but the way it's phrased (in a past, passive, afterthought way) weakens it a little

Pupae, eggs, larvae, queen
a head above the soldiers, drones,

scattering in files
from sculpted caves
for higher ground,

a hollow handrail,
a lifeless palm. I like how you used the imagery as spots of peaceful interest against the motion

A colony in reach
of strands of sun

waits for storms to pass
and water to lower "lower like a bridge" works function-wise, but in effect "water to lower" becomes a bit of a nondescript line
like a bridge. See them,

through the pane
dotted with drops of rainfall,

blinds open as daylight
fumes into grey and into black? Wrongly placed question mark? The ending for me is just kind of diffused... like the aftermath was just there for the sake of, almost a non-event. Perhaps this is what you were going for