
This selection, chosen by Guest Curator Elizabeth Vignali, is from Lararium by Ray Ball, released by Variant Lit in 2020.
Dendroctonus rufipennis
At a party, a friend of a friend asks
do you have children?
And you respond
There are thirty times
more dead spruce
than five years ago.
They turned red
and then a discomfiting dun
after climate change
birthed a destiny of beetles—
manifest. Smaller trees can
flourish in a forest
of ghosts, but that
doesn’t always mean
that they do.


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