Exoskeletons
November 30, 2007
Desert magician, darkling
beetle — imagine
if you woke
to find your lost twin lying
empty alongside
you in bed —
dead. Or if in the middle
of, at work, import-
ant drivel,
you came unfastened. Do you
step with care or kick
the useless
you aside, pretend you do
not see it lying
there? Or, con-
sider, lost in a roman-
tic declaration,
the likely
embarrassment when a bone-
splitting crack is heard.
The shell falls
away revealing nothing
over and over,
but itself.
by Wendy Vardaman
Categories: Insecta
Wendy Vardaman
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