Elegy with a Horseshoe Crab
They say the blue spinal fluid of the horseshoe crab could holdthe cure for cancer. Imagine them, their spike tails strapped skyward, leaking not the ocean but its color. . .With the flatness of the ocean floor, this relative of the spider — this non web-spinning cousin—doesn’t know how to be inverted. Or bled. Exoskeletoned and the one eye reading… Read more →