Beekeeper
do you (ever) remove your bee-mask
that you just might
taste
the honey?
or for one such as you
(how many divorces?)
does that necessitate
a constitutional amendment
perhaps even
a convention?
i'm told
bees
can be gentle
when we
can be still.
---
Then again
maybe bees
are impatient
for us to learn
to fly
so they might show us
such discoveries:
open flowers.
tracing the sweetness
to its source.
(though us humans, we need
the production the work
from nectar to honey
the work of the hive the work
of conventions
for the pleasures of continued consumption
for honey, amidst desertification)
---
You said sometimes
you laugh
sometimes
the bee lands on your
fingertips.
An image:
the bee tracing the distance
from finger to knuckle
(another you would have used those knuckles
to punch that man who dared
to say such a thing
to those who had next to
nothing).
Image:
a bee whispering
secrets of hidden brooks and sweet nectar
of your shadow-light of cacti and willow
in the dancing language only bees know
into the exposed softness
your skin, your hand
you: known?
the bee asks
simple questions:
who is this
flower?
Sweet or sour?
is this my hive?
And one to another:
How faireth
your queen?
is it really you
who wrote and now sustains
the dance of the pattern
of that old
constitution?
Would you rather
re-write the whole damn thing
and fly
in a different direction?
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