This is disturbing.
Thanks!
Tina
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From: "Caleb Cluff" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:12 AM
Subject: Snap - Cataloguing a specimen
Family, genus, species, subspecies -
taxonomy is frigid sport.
I take a pin and lance the scutum
of a corpse I've made.
Extend elytra, wing, antenna,
tag the body.
Slide the shank into the cork.
That's your sexual feeling right there,
the thigh-grab of the cork on steel.
A family litany:
Carabidae pray for me
Carabinae pray for me
Pterostichitae have mercy on me
Rhystisternus have mercy on me
Rhytisternus miser pray for me
This is
the sad ground beetle.
Named by de Chaudoir
for the sad ground.
Once, in Macleay Museum
all the lights failed.
In an open drawer, beneath the clotted glass,
the dead shone luminous.
Caleb Cluff
Majorca, Victoria
17/01/2007
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