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Specimen No. 68 The Crooked-Legg Snapwing (A Tribute to Shel Silverstein)
Specimen No. 68 (A Tribute to Shel Silverstein)
Name: The Crooked-Legg Snapwing | Spindulata petalpilus
Observer: Miss Clementine Drawn, amateur botanist and licorice enthusiast
Discovery Date: 4 July 1907
Location: Under the chalky cliff at Tattermoor Bend
Catalog No. FD - 22 - 68
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There once was a bug with a wobble-leg gait
Who clung to a daisy, a little too late.
His wings were like windows all etched in black thread,
And he tilted his eyes to the clouds overhead.
They say he was born from a pencil mistake,
A doodle, forgotten, then splashed in a lake.
He dried on a napkin, then buzzed into air—
A dragonfly drawn out of the not-quite-there.
He doesn’t fly straight, and he doesn’t fly far,
Preferring the perch of a bent flower star.
He folds up his wings in the heat of the day,
And hums little tunes in a crooked-winged way..
Silver ink on his thorax, a stem in his grip,
Two scribbled antennae, one loose paperclip.
He’s the kind that you find when you’re not quite awake,
A sketch on the corner of a lavender cake.
So mind where you scribble, and mind what you say—
There are bugs who remember, and wings made of play.
And if you draw gently, with laughter and rhyme,
You might bring to life what just slipped out of time.
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Notes from Miss Drawn’s field sketchbook:
“Legs appear jointed at nonstandard angles. One wing drags a bit, but he doesn’t seem to mind. Prefers silent flowers and graphite gardens. Friendly, if shy. May be ticklish. Named him Snap.”
Filed in the Entonological Archive under “Misc. Creatures with Strong Narrative Potential.”
Note: High quality archival glicée print on acid-free paper, a method that creates fine art reproductions with exceptional color accuracy and longevity. Pigments-based inks are designed to resist fading and discoloration and capture the finest details and subtle color variations with great precision.
Housed in a 4×6” crystal-clear acrylic specimen block, its 1” depth allows freestanding display. Each piece is designed to exhibit on desk or shelf.
Fly Design uses a practice known as entonology — the study of fictitious insects — to reimagine the natural world through scientific storytelling and poetic design.
Specimen No. 68 (A Tribute to Shel Silverstein)
Name: The Crooked-Legg Snapwing | Spindulata petalpilus
Observer: Miss Clementine Drawn, amateur botanist and licorice enthusiast
Discovery Date: 4 July 1907
Location: Under the chalky cliff at Tattermoor Bend
Catalog No. FD - 22 - 68
—
There once was a bug with a wobble-leg gait
Who clung to a daisy, a little too late.
His wings were like windows all etched in black thread,
And he tilted his eyes to the clouds overhead.
They say he was born from a pencil mistake,
A doodle, forgotten, then splashed in a lake.
He dried on a napkin, then buzzed into air—
A dragonfly drawn out of the not-quite-there.
He doesn’t fly straight, and he doesn’t fly far,
Preferring the perch of a bent flower star.
He folds up his wings in the heat of the day,
And hums little tunes in a crooked-winged way..
Silver ink on his thorax, a stem in his grip,
Two scribbled antennae, one loose paperclip.
He’s the kind that you find when you’re not quite awake,
A sketch on the corner of a lavender cake.
So mind where you scribble, and mind what you say—
There are bugs who remember, and wings made of play.
And if you draw gently, with laughter and rhyme,
You might bring to life what just slipped out of time.
—
Notes from Miss Drawn’s field sketchbook:
“Legs appear jointed at nonstandard angles. One wing drags a bit, but he doesn’t seem to mind. Prefers silent flowers and graphite gardens. Friendly, if shy. May be ticklish. Named him Snap.”
Filed in the Entonological Archive under “Misc. Creatures with Strong Narrative Potential.”
Note: High quality archival glicée print on acid-free paper, a method that creates fine art reproductions with exceptional color accuracy and longevity. Pigments-based inks are designed to resist fading and discoloration and capture the finest details and subtle color variations with great precision.
Housed in a 4×6” crystal-clear acrylic specimen block, its 1” depth allows freestanding display. Each piece is designed to exhibit on desk or shelf.
Fly Design uses a practice known as entonology — the study of fictitious insects — to reimagine the natural world through scientific storytelling and poetic design.