Antibodies

Some skeptics start to feel the heat

Montreal Gazette, 18 September 2012

her airways are choked

with industrial smoke

her alveoli littered

with no particular particulate

radical molecules

flushed from her ventricles

rush to her nether region

bedevilling her circulation

but the infection is identified

and t-cells multiply

in the marrow;

        pyrexia follows

global inflammation

is no longer in question

staple prices double

as fields are razed to stubble

borders flex on political maps

where refugee camps

sprouting like mushrooms

between droughts and monsoons

prevent any further dispersion

of the agent of infection

(c) 2012 Slush Poet