Zoomed in picture of a stag beetle's head with an excerpt from the poem Common Descent "This is an insect with zest, with heft enough to take down others of his kind... true mouthparts tucked discretely beneath the massive grapplers—I, too, hide my real mouth behind something bigger."
Childhood hero: David Attenborough. Kinship with the living world he instilled in me has only grown.
Thx Radar Poetry for celebrating this at www.radarpoetry.com/common-descent & to my #chickadeecollective, especially @conorgearin.bsky.social who helped identify the heart of this poem early on.
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