NexusI wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass, begging vacantly with pale eyes;and the commas leapt at me like wormsor miniature scythes blackened with age.the praying mantis screeched louder, his ragged jaws opening into formlessness. I walked outside;the grass hissed at my heels. Up ahead in the lapping darknesshe wobbled, magnified and absurdly green, a brontosaurus, a poet. . Rita Dove
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"Nexus" is a Latin-derived word meaning "intersection." In this quote, the author is describing the revelation of the connection between two apparently unrelated events. In this case, the mantis and the poet. The mantis and the poet are both natural phenomena which align with each other. In this case, they are both insects that show up at the same time and then disappear until they return again at a later time.

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