The Invention of Honey
by Ricardo Sternberg
Admit
from the start:
next to nothing
is what we know
about the bee.
Some have argued
that the sun cried,
the tears fell,
they took wings,
took heart and went to work.
Others have called this
poetry —
dismissing it
as hatched by men
with their heads
in the moon:
the bee is an ant
promoted for good behaviour,
given wings, a brighter suit
and the key to honey.
Very well.
The debate continues
and I do not know.
The bee is to me
as I must seem to her
a complete mystery.
small engines running on honey
striped angels who fell for sweetness
stars shooting into the corolla of a petalled sun
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The End
And that’s the End of the Poem
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