I have a set of online poetry magazines that I read to find poems to send Facebook friends on their birthdays. This morning, I read "I Was Not, Among My Kind, Distinctive", a new poem by Jane Hirshfield in the November 2024 issue of "Poetry": "I fed the world’s mosquitoes who fed the world’s bats." Perhaps that line would not have stuck in my head if it was not for "The Horse Trail", by Meagan Chandler, from the excellent Singapore-based daily literary magazine "Eunoia Review": "[...] the humming mosquito tickling / my ear with thirst as I clear a way through tangled reeds / convinces me that I am needed [...]." (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 3 November 2024)
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