Our garden is a bright opening of light amid the shade and cool breeze under the deep forest umbrella. The pollinators have come this afternoon to celebrate the sweetness. Cat birds, hummingbirds, yellow swallow-tail butterflies, doves, hummingbird moths, cow birds, and many wild bees! They come for the sweetness. If you’d like to taste more sweetness, like the poem below, click on the books tab for A Litany of Wild Graces!
Honey Bee
April sun’s warm vortex
carries her up
ever up.
Suitors spiral higher
toward her lucent flight.
Entwined, they dance
penetrated by light.
She brings devotion’s glow
into her hive; feeds it
to each daughter
who works
among the flowers
making drops of love
into honey.
Her pearlescent eggs
are spiraling stars
in an apian Milky Way.
She lays them
in hexagonal cradles
while hot southern sun
permeates
her cosmos.
She carries sun mysteries
inside her body
while honey heralds
bees and land
as one.
From my book A Litany of Wild Graces ~ Meditations on Sacred Ecology