Honey Bees Wait – Nov. 30, 2022
“If they’re here—all females in a winter hive—they’re clustered together inside (an oak tree), queen at the heart of their sisterhood. The fine, transparent wings they beat hard in summer’s heat—a constant buzzing fan to keep the hive from cooking—they hold, now, folded and still. The tiny muscles to which those wings are attached shiver. […]
Bees – Aug. 1, 2022
“Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!—that I had a beehive here inside my heart.…And the golden beeswere making white combsand sweet honey from my old failures.….” —Antonio Machado, excerpt from “Last Night As I Was Sleeping“, from Times Alone, translated by Robert Bly
