• Vol. 05
  • Chapter 08

Of Bees

Send for the wax workers.
Send for
the drones
and the nurses.
Send for the younglings too.
Tell them we
have found their queen.

And more than that besides,
we have found her heart’s desire:
dripped
molten
yellow
overflowing
with
richness.

A man of honey
made from dreams of bees.

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