A stalking on shaggy paws through the diverse forms of animal poetry: Mikael Vogel invites you on a lyrical tracking through the world of animals, across the seas and skies, beneath the earth and into the sewers, into factory farming, tattoos, and zoos. Flirting flamingos, spiders lurking in love poems, elephants in a relationship crisis – don’t tell me again that I should be a thick-skinned creature after every sensitivity. Sometimes at eye level with the animal, at cockroach or giraffe eye level, sometimes the animal just flits through the line of poetry and is gone, leaving the human once again standing alone, confronted with the fragmented reflection of their own emotional state captured in the animal. Following the cuneiform of bird tracks, feeling the beggar's marks of the underdog animal, the poems unfold their sharply detailed gaze, their sensuality.