Wednesday, March 20, 2013

begging the bees

                    quivering arrows inch → → → → → → across the cage. caterpillars toeing the
lime rimmed                     salt encrusted              Oh                     of the
goblet.

drop the gauntlet. they have less aim than we
                                                                   have purpose for
                                                                                               maiming
                                                                        saving graces
                                                                                             for before

the Dinner's folded napkin dabs the corners of
                                                                   drunk                   mothereyes

the replicated disguise                 that licks the spine

of every Encyclopedia Britannica from one

                                                                 to

                                                                       thirty-two.
crunching molars between numbers,
                                                     allow context to define
the
       angle
                 of
           the
sexton

                                                                 the
                                                                point
                                                          of the piston
                 imagine
                     the pain
                         of plant stamen

so                         much stamina                          in pollen.
 
                in vitro growing
                                                                                       but no showing

                                                                     how for we foul
                 f a l l
                         i n g                                                                          before pleading


                                  for Korsakov and his bees.