Wild thing

Broken heart and restless dreams. Goodbye, Muffin. @budak

Johan Christian Fabricius, a Danish natural historian and student of Carl von Linné who single-handedly dragged entomology out of the dark ages and set the discipline on the path to modern systematics, used the Greek word agrios to describe a group of insects that thrive not in the confines of domestic holdings but in meadows and marshland. The term no longer survives in taxonomical ranks, save as a suffix for widespread genera, but Agrion – those that live in the open fields, the savage and the wild, the untamed, uncultivated and unreclaimed – was the name he bestowed on the insects we commonly call damselflies: the sprites, wisps, coraltails and sylvans that dance on delicate wings and form in their coital union a heart of broken proportions. She came as a wild thing, a sliver of grey and frightened growls who slipped under a door and hid under a weekend of furniture bef...

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