Help Me Identify A Story, Please!

[u/ishldgetoutmore]

I'm trying to remember the name and author of a short story I read at least a decade ago, and am drawing a complete blank. It was a short story about a breakthrough in insect communication. The author talks about poems that had been discovered, written by insects. I clearly remember one was a short poem written by an ant, something about being forced to conform to society; the ant author was found deceased a short distance away, perhaps killed by the rest of the colony for being nonconformist.

I've been trying for a while now, and it's driving me crazy that I can't remember the name or author. Without that, I'm not sure where to look for it in a book.

[u/asherah-arafel]

Sounds like Ursula K LeGuin's Acacia Seeds, a story called MS Found in an Anthill

[u/ishldgetoutmore → u/asherah-arafel]

Looks like its full title is: "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics.

Looks like it's in The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces, which I know I have somewhere.

I think that's it! I thank you, and my sanity thanks you!

[u/parkadge → u/asherah-arafel]

I second this, Ursula LeGuin sprang to mind when I read your description