Isles of Honey
Slipping slightly sideways
Adangled by the jaw
Bee knees behind the back
Stroking silken bee mane
Awaking
From a near star
where bee dreams milk saxophone
to the beat of indigo
Riding the crests of great Kingfishers
aflanked by a train of dragonflys
schools of samlets
with mosquito chaperones
satiated on milkweed blossoms
alongside all of one
of the sun’s successive meridian transits
of the sun’s successive meridian transits
Napping is the busy bee’s religion
because everybee knows
rested is the way
rested is the way
to really get things done
In the heat of Zenith
when firebirds
are found, rolling and
flipping in the ether,
setting fire to the fields
electrifying the cold stone
setting fire to the fields
electrifying the cold stone
into calling upon the rains to come
and meadow-heathered mead to pour forth
and meadow-heathered mead to pour forth
Kenny Barron and Ray Bryant
in a duet with forces of
a cool night after the rain
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Love this one!
This one’s like a magic spell for filliping ticklish gold from the smug summer mugginess. It’s every bit as expressive and rich as the world’s most exotic songbirds taking tea in their twee little central Kentucky safehouse stashed in a garden-side shiso forest. To boot, mosquito chaperones might be the band name to beat all band names. They’re all pretty magical, but this one especially: it’s a Wagner song cycle born of a fallen poplar blossom—its all of antiquity’s gods and monsters giving their all at a highschool homecoming karaoke luncheon—its the pearl and the oyster shell swirled in incomparable harmony set in a silver sleeve that the moon’s been envying since its inception.
I love the world you build here. My favorite lines: “where bee dreams milk saxophone/to the beat of indigo…”
With Shaun on this one, too. Just gorgeous: “where bee dreams milk saxophone
to the beat of indigo”
because everybee knows
I LOVE invented words.
Great sensory details and appreciation for nature. And aaaahhhh, the ending! Thank you for sharing this poem.