Thursday, November 6, 2008

Radio Ladybug

Cottony cushion scale fear
preserves oranges and rice.
DDT entangles ecosystems
while lamplit groves exhale
and wait.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For some reason I really dig poems that juxtapose nature with synthetic things or machines.


But why a radio ladybug?
Have you read about the ladybugs being introduced to the Galapagos to eat the CCS?

Eat a Book said...

Many of my choices for odd juxtapositions (especially the stranger ones) are either partially or completely because of sound. "Radio Ladybug" has a nice inner rhyme, and serves the purpose of the poem well, I think.

The inspiration, however, has a little to do with differential equations and one of the cleverest applications of Volterra's predator-prey population dynamic model... you should check it out :).