Bee Journal by Sean Borodale

Author:Sean Borodale
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448138241
Publisher: Random House

17TH JULY: KILLING DRONES

Today cut comb with drone cells from the lower frame.

Too many drones,

one tenth of all here this month;

they eat the stores.

Capped brood in ancient pots.

(Suspect no queen present,

she with clipped wings, gone.)

Respect the unborn dead.

Hatched heads waggle, they are trapped;

they understand

the pageant of the mating flight will come.

And yet not born yet, these fated.

Two queen cells ripen fat with burden;

evolve same plan.

(Winding sound increased.)

Which queen will wake first?

This game we hold and do not possess but use.

This farm is cities;

good health;

wing sheen like threshold stones.

Kneel eyes;

note, no graffiti of foul brood or mould;

comb dark with capped brood is pixels.

Wings good, not ragged; the honey clear,

will not take yet.

Took one board of comb with hatching drones;

heads chewing out their caps.

Threw the buoyant, tarry, dark wax into the river.

Barge of ballast: heads a trout may seize.

Slow flows, away it goes,

twelve-headed river-hearse of the emergent.

No flame for them.

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