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Annie Finch (1956-)

Insect


              1That hour-glass-backed,
              2orchard-legged,
              3heavy-headed will,

              4paper-folded,
              5wedge-contorted,
              6savage -- dense to kill --

              7pulls back on backward -- moving,
              8arching
              9high legs still,

            10lowered through a deep, knees-reaching,
            11feathered down
            12green will,

            13antenna-honest,
            14thread-descending,
            15carpeted as if with skill,

            16a focus-changing,
            17sober-reaching,

            18tracing, killing will.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text:
Publication date note: Eve (Brownsville, Oregon: Story Line Press, 1997): 25. Princeton University Library PS 3556 .I448
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition:
Recent editing: 1:2004/6/16

Composition date note: Composed: 1985

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