After a full-page advertisement for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in National Geographic, August 1953.
Little black ants &
mouthfuls of pink candy fluff:
how does medical science explain
a slender cedar?
Today, for instance,
an aerial highway
against the moonlit sky –
a heightened sensitivity.
Not a disease, but a
strange disorder
disappearing amidst
the upper branches
littered with dead &
dying ants.