#title mayflies #date 2025 #source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/417-winter-2025/mayflies]] #lang en #pubdate 2026-02-22 #notes Fifth Estate #417, Winter 2025 mayflies dead on the streets of Selma mayflies dead on the Edmund Pettus Bridge David and I are there to remember to pay our respects, to see but everywhere we look the streets and sidewalks are covered with drifts of mayfly carcasses heaps of translucent white wings uncountable numbers of corpses we try not to step on them it’s all but impossible we walk with a sickening crunch across that weighty bridge emerging on the other side two white people unscathed on a field of the dead — 18 April 2025 Charlottesville VA Fievel (they/them). Queer anarchist non-binary radio host, podcaster, poet, fomenter of unrest. Most things at jasoncrane.org.