[Realpoetik] AMY MCDANIEL

[RealPoetik Magazine]

REQUESTING INFORMATION


Please tell me your best
facts about animals.  I’m asking
everyone.  I’ll begin.

The Tasmanian devils are being wiped
out by a frightful epidemic—like the
bees but worse.  The epidemic
is *actually called* Devil Facial
Tumour Disease.  It is communicable
within the species via bites
or especially vehement sex.

To sex a sea urchin, you tap it until
it emits a thin puddle of egg or sperm.
What if this worked on other things!
Imagine wondering what a thing is.
For the price of a few pats on the back,
the thing releases onto your
palm a frank sample, a tiny
pool of its own essence, meaning,
and being.

Maybe in another lifetime.  Most
things are coy in our world.
They are couth.


*Amy McDaniel* writes for HTMLgiant.com and helps run the Solar Anus reading
series in Atlanta.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in *matchbook*,
*Alimentum*, *Tin House, Porchlight and The AgricultureReader.  She
co-edited From the Second Line, a collection of her students’ personal
essays about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.  Her chapbook, Selected
Adult Lessons, is available from Agnes Fox Press.*

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