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Rhona McAdam
CANADA
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Rhona McAdam is a
writer, food activist and holistic nutritionist. Her poetry has been
published in Canada, the US and England since the 1980s. In 2012 she
published an urban agriculture manifesto, Digging the City (RMB).
Ex-ville (Oolichan, 2014) is her sixth full-length poetry
collection. She lives in Victoria, B.C.
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Evolution
of the Tick
Their DNA
wraps them round grasses
leaving four arms free
for the ride.
They’ve chosen their colours
so they can best be worn, like buttons
or matching socks.
They wear
their sex on their backs,
their waistbands are
infinite.
They slide
between leaves in our books,
stopping to blacken
a favourite word.
They are
messengers of heat
and heartbeat.
They slip
eight legs and a metaphor
under our doors, pause
in postures of creep
on night’s walls.
On us
they crawl indiscernibly skywards,
males tangling in the long grass
of our thinking caps, seeking
the anchored female
in an ancient quest:
sex and blood, sex
and blood.
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