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Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle

Author(s) -

Freya Manfred

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

emerging infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.54

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1080-6059

pISSN - 1080-6040

DOI - 10.3201/eid1312.ad1312

Subject(s) - foot (prosody) , yesterday , front (military) , ancient history , ridge , legend , history , art , archaeology , geography , geology , paleontology , meteorology , physics , literature , astronomy

I spy his head above the waves, big as a man’s fist, black eyes peering at me, until he dives into darker, deeper water. Yesterday I saw him a foot from my outstretched hand, already tilting his great domed shell away. Ribbons of green moss rippled behind him, growing along the ridge of his back and down his long reptilian tail. He swims in everything he knows, and what he knows is never forgotten. Wisely, he fears me as if I were the Plague, which I am, sick unto death, swimming to heal myself in his primeval sea.

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