Homage to BeastsI.The Peregrine Falcon Wings back flat, talon and talon, all eye and beak and feather, he descends through a sea of air, splitting down through the grasses to a warm point of flesh. II. The Mosquito The male, who is larger, will not penetrate your skin or drink your blood, unlike some other insects, the tick, for example, or the honey bee, but it’s hard sometimes to tell when one’s buzzing your head, just what sex it is if you don’t have a very sharp eye and know just what to look for. III. The Siamese Cat Aloof as one can get without leaving the earth, and not without reason considering the coat, sealpoint or chocolate, which she got from her mother, and the legs, which came down on her father’s side, not bad looking at all and perfect for jumping. IV. The Slug What a sticky trail he leaves on the dew-damp two by fours out behind the garage every morning as he passes from damp place to damp place, from darkness to dark, a tumescent green snail without a shell, or some disembodied penis coming home late from work. V. The Catfish Found in almost every kind of water except clean, and some survive there, one variety has even started walking, for miles across the roads and open fields of Florida without provisions, yet despite, or perhaps because of such propensities, the whiskery critter, which has no scales, is a perennial favorite, deep-fried in a crisp beer batter on lazy summer Sundays everywhere.
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