Frigid, indeed, Caleb, but that's a very bright, cold light at the end.
Doug
On 16-Jan-07, at 6:12 PM, Caleb Cluff wrote:
> 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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