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.