Moving Through the Meadow ~ L'assemblage by Michael Douglas Jones ©2020
Original artwork SOLD / Gallery 322
The beekeeper’s boy sits in the meadow,
in the murmur of the moment;
watching the movement of rising and falling;
the bees, their being, and non-being.
Watching, waiting, listening for the bees.
Was that their whisper,
was that the wind,
or just the whir of white noise.
Colony collapse has finally hit the hive.
The beekeeper’s boy, who raised this rabble,
must now give them up.
The queen is quietly mercurial;
the swarm is more like mayhem.
Still, he had seen the miracle
moving through the meadow.
The beekeeper’s boy sits in the meadow,
in the measured hours of this moment,
where future will not arrive, and past no longer matters.
The useful Arts and Mysteries, the apicultural history,
the architecture of Aristaeus, all have crumbled,
and lay like wax cappings near recently robbed hives,
like shell casings near recently robbed lives.
Still, he had seen the miracle
moving through the meadow.
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