Interspecies

[RiverNotch]

This is a hard one for me to parse. It's solid, I just think my mind got stufk to an interpretation that isn't as consistent as it should be. With the title and the notion of the seasons my minf was immediately drawn to the idea of this being about the environment -- how neither the mosquito's larvae nor the children of its host will survive our man-made apocalypse. But, of coutse, revisiting this after some less desperate time may yield other results.

Interspecies


It’s Fall!  Don’t you understand,
mosquito-lady, that our children
by my blood that you just drew
won’t live to see Christmas?

Northern Hemisphere, of course.