{"id":10960,"date":"2022-01-20T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/december-2021-winner-award-of-awesomeness\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:18:55","slug":"figure-drawing-of-a-horseshoe-crab-by-tazi-rodrigues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/figure-drawing-of-a-horseshoe-crab-by-tazi-rodrigues\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>figure drawing of a horseshoe crab<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cHorseshoe crab blood is bright blue. \u2026 Scientists used [the crabs\u2019] clever blood cells to develop a test \u2026 which checks new vaccines for contamination.\u201d<\/em>\n\u2014Natural History Museum, London<\/p>\nupturned on the lab bench like a\nmelon, halved: we drew the\nundulating outline of a horseshoe crab,\nthen sketched the legs tucked in\nlike seeds, studied the way her body\nshelled itself. grasping legs \/ walking\nlegs \/ pushing legs. book gills, like\nribs, filled in her abdomen. we traced\nthe arc of carapace, the compound\neyes embedded in prosoma,\nthe hinge and spines. meanwhile,\non Atlantic beaches, horseshoe\ncrabs swam up to swarming shores,\ntripped over their own arachnid\nspawning: shells pressed close to\nshells, gills held by the shallow swell\nof waves against the sand. the water\nbalmy, dense with moonlit mating.\nand meanwhile, too, horseshoe crabs\nspilled their blue blood into glass jars\nwhile strapped to the factory line,\ntheir seedlike legs turned inward,\nbodies tapped for miracle\ncoagulants. our miracle \/ their wane.\neach vial brimmed with the drained-\nblood promise of safety, blue\nlike the bay where the crabs were\nsent back, once bled, to see\nif they could still cling to the salt.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#0000000f;padding-top:2rem;padding-bottom:2rem\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Bios<\/h2>\n\n\n            <div class=\"wp-block-media-text bio is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"> \r\n                <figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tazi-Rodrigues-AAoA.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Tazi-Rodrigues-AAoA.jpg\" alt=\"blond-haired woman in a blue shirt against an off-white background holding a small decorated thermometer|\" \/>\r\n                <\/figure>\r\n                <div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n                    <h3 class=\"author-bio-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/creator\/tazi-rodrigues\/\">Tazi Rodrigues<\/a><\/h3>\r\n                    <p><strong>Tazi Rodrigues<\/strong> is a writer and master\u2019s student in biology who studies movement and fresh water in both disciplines. From Winnipeg, she is currently based in Kingston, Ontario. Her chapbook, <em>I Followed the Coasts<\/em>, is forthcoming from JackPine Press.<\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHorseshoe crab blood is bright blue. \u2026 Scientists used [the crabs\u2019] clever blood cells to develop a test \u2026 which checks new vaccines for contamination.\u201d \u2014Natural History Museum, London upturned on the lab bench like a melon, halved: we drew the undulating outline of a horseshoe crab, then sketched the legs tucked in like seeds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"2135","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2135],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3262,3148],"topic":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}