In Praise of Chiggers
And the others
feasting unseen
upon you,
offering their
blessings
of digestive juices
and anticoagulants,
allergic reactions and
reddened mounds
made pleasurable
by your fingernails
scraping the skin
around them, over
and raw, again,
again, it feels
so good!
“In Praise of Chiggers” first appeared here in August, 2017.
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I can never praise chiggers. 😉
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Ha! They are rather difficult to like.
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Chiggers are more fun to scratch than mosquitos but ticks have better anticoagulant. Yum!
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Ick!
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Now here’s a subject I thought I’d never embedded in a poem. Lots of childhood memories if just what it describes evoked in this reader.
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