TO A MOSQUITO: Some thoughts about interspecies competition

	Thine Is The Night:
	when other creatures
	close their eyes
	you emerge
	seeking warm targets

	Hovering in darkness
	near luscious flesh
	your proboscis tingles
	when sucking
	as
	your belly swells with ruby slush –
	is anything more thrilling
	than a hemoglobin rush?

	Next morning
	as you fly against a bright window pane
	I wrap soft tissue around you
	& your rubicund form becomes
	a Kleenex stain

	No creature is invincible
	& though in darkness you reign
	when the sun appears
	Mine Is The Day


Nadia: Ugh - this is gross!

Will:  Imagine what other creatures think of humans. Wouldn't they feel we are disgusting?

Nadia: I don't know. Interspecies communication is fraught with problems.


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from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields
Summary: A conversation and poem about the relationship between humans and mosquitos.
Keywords: interspecies competition, Culicidae, mosquito consciousness, ectoparasitic awareness

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan ☆ Finished: 2016 in New Taipei, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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