Telling the Bees About Reverence
They know what I will say. I will tell them how ants covered a dead bumblebee in cherry petals, how they came bearing more than their...
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By Bruce Meyer
- Feb 4, 2022
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Journeys
They met me coming up the concession to our lane after the bus’s flag stop. They were waiting in the bursts of asters, in milkweed pods...
By Bruce Meyer
- May 31, 2021
- 2 min
A Homeric Hymn
There is a picture a friend snapped of me drunk atop Dun Laoghaire’s Martello tower. I’d been overseas for months, my hair grown into an...
By Bruce Meyer
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees about Time
Like honey, there is only so much of it one can make, and even less in a season. The queens rise and fall. The tides of loyalty shift. On...
By Bruce Meyer
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Friendship
As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
By Bruce Meyer
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Love
Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...
By Bruce Meyer
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Dragon Wings & Other Poetry
As close as I could get to the water, I took off my leather sandals to let my toes dangle in the reeds. I lay back with my head on a...
By Bruce Meyer
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
Apiary
The lavender fields are dotted with white boxes squat as houses. In his mesh veil, smoker handy, hands gloved, he slowly removes the...
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