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Jun 30, 2015
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Photo: Harold Schechter
erasing love
Aubade: Feverish Speculation
Love
might still be
a carcass in deep freeze until someone can clean and mount the skeleton
*
Love
might still be
ice in a ditch
*
Love
can jettison bodies much the way lizards can shed their tails
*
If something about tectonic movement is killing
Love
We wanted the kids to see
tissue samples, skin samples and eyeball samples
Ars Poetica
designed to see in the low light of the deep ocean
the eye is unusually large
Love
might still be under water
not spotted
Olivia Suggests All the Women in Class Imagine Male Sexuality
unpredictable
hard
long and eel-like in appearance, can grow to stupendous lengths — though ancient rumors of 55-foot specimens are probably exaggerated
a handful of
Love
a variety of parasite
male
excitement
Elegy
Milton said
left with
the
remains
You can only Love
an ichthyologist
Ekphrasis
quite near the surface, suspended vertically with head up, just passively floating
and known as ryugu no tsukai, or “messenger from the sea god’s palace ”
picture it
Ode to Love
you
noted with excitement that the male was missing the posterior part of its body
It may be that all individuals pass through a stage in which they are males and then
they’re females
the head will soon be delivered to
you
Source text: “Oarfish Offer Chance to Study an Elusive Animal Long Thought a Monster” by Douglas Quenqua, The New York Times 11/2/13.
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June 30, 2015