Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Letters to the Queen
Dear Highness
Queen,
Perhaps you
can
help me. It is
early March
and
I am
concerned
about a hive
of
my bees. I have
found my
queen
in the top
box.
She was
marked
green. But I saw
only a few
larva,
some brood,
not a solid
egg
pattern and
so
so many painfully
small drones.
Should I
replace
her with
someone
younger? Is she
worn
out? What
should I
do? I was
thinking I
could buy
a virgin or a
mated
queen. Will I risk
disease?
Worried in
the Apiary,
James
Dear James,
This is an
interesting
question. What you
have is a
drone-laying
queen! Kill her.
The hive
needs a virgin
or a fully mated
queen.
The Queen
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Americans Dot the Dusk
social
neatness
like
a
patched
thought
stark crayon
a
torrent
of chill
tendrils
the
voice of
scorching
high
in the air
briefly peering
back
(1-inch
window, right-hand margin, p. 22-28)
Monday, June 23, 2014
Autumn Grade
time
a
blue-white
diamond
to
live
on
a
ray of
jade-green
wood
this
slow-dawning
trackless
dusk
coming
leaf-less
trees
(1-inch window, left-hand margin, p.
14-21)
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Outside Heroic
choice
women
delicate
bones
the
eye
sockets
a
fine
narrow bridge
a
marked
way of looking
the
truck
gardener’s
toil
Thursday, June 19, 2014
West of Town
there’s currant and
cabbage
as much as
the
faded spring
rose
(1-inch
window, right-hand margin, p. 8-10)
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