Scientists Film Inside A Flying Insect
Amy Wright
“If we can reproduce it...”
–BBC News
An x-rayed blowfly
in action wheels inside, buckles,
a mid-stride Derby horse
pleasuring itself
against the air. Slowed
for the human eye,
miniscule muscles
bend the whole rower
the way a neck
rocks a wooden horse
or a girl
on the swings
pushes her arches
to the sky.
The pull
of life
recognizable
now by fried
mother boards, one
hundred little deaths
attempting to lift
a tiny electric
aeronaut, buzzing,
from the earth.
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–BBC News
An x-rayed blowfly
in action wheels inside, buckles,
a mid-stride Derby horse
pleasuring itself
against the air. Slowed
for the human eye,
miniscule muscles
bend the whole rower
the way a neck
rocks a wooden horse
or a girl
on the swings
pushes her arches
to the sky.
The pull
of life
recognizable
now by fried
mother boards, one
hundred little deaths
attempting to lift
a tiny electric
aeronaut, buzzing,
from the earth.