{Culiseta longiareolata}

Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel

Acorn, hyacinth, finger-paints, platypus,
birthdays, somersaults, car crash, home videos, and laughing
‘til
you
can’t
breath:
why is sometimes just a mosquito humming at the opera.

This is a One-Line Poem inspired by Chalkboard’s Prompt: Because by Harper Thorpe

About the Author

Owen Banner spent his childhood baptized in the red dirt of Mandeville, Jamaica and his adolescence in the neon morass of Manila in the Philippines. He’s lived in or traveled to countries all over the planet, nourished by people and cultures. These diverse voices plant the seeds of his stories, which twist genre and seek new perspectives. Discover more at owenbanner.com.