Lyme disease spreads north.
Favourable conditions
from climate change
open new habitats
for the black-legged ticks.
Their heads
– less than a millimetre –
grasp what some advisors
in the Oval Office
don’t.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
