Tuesday, January 24, 2012
lingering calisthenic excercise
This is yet another
attempt at defamiliarization.
Same topic.
When researching maggots (because I’m not that creative!)
I ran across a few
odd ways that maggots are used.
For instance, I didn’t
know that they are a very popular bait for catching fish.
Or that they were
used in antiquity as a medical procedure for cleaning out dead tissue from
festering wounds.
Forensic entomologists
also use them to date or recognize the time of death on recently deceased
humans or animals.
Interesting, no?
Attracting fish.
They are the hunted now, on the hook
Ice fishing bait
In an ironic twist of fate
To be dissected, sold for profit
Thrown into the swim
An Anglers best friend
Used in a small wounds,
Controlled and sterile -
Disinfected to resemble shiny medical tools,
sucking necrotic tissue from pressure ulcers,
leaving living tissue pure
‘safe and effective.’
Approximating time of death,
Essential in dating corpses.
These recorders arrive promptly by noon -
conceived directly on their food;
useless after 80 hours.
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Hey April,
ReplyDeleteYou’ve taken a great approach to de-familiarization. I like the level of specificity of entomological terminology. It is chilling, but provides a fresh way to re-familiarize ourselves with insects. I think that we can dwell specifically on what the maggot, insect, does in the forensic process. What does it allow us to achieve? How is it vital to that process?
I was really inspired by your post, and these questions, so I decided to jot down some ideas below. Keep it up!
Healers,
witch doctors with no wings
yet!
Babysitters,
taking care of,
dating,
teenage girls.
Blue bottles,
three days,
the beatles,
seven days,
spring tails,
winter acaris,
thirty days.