Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire

This week’s poem is by Doug Woodsum. His most recent book is “The Lawns of Lobstermen,” published by Moon Pie Press.

 

Bee Transport

By Doug Woodsum

 

Not flying, but hovering and buzzing,

hundreds of bees form a fringe of humming

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in the blossom-laden apple tree: sound

like a news reel world war bomber squadron.

The apple tree too seems to be hovering,

the great buzzing having shaken it loose

from the Earth. The bees rotate to the right

then left as if each blossom is a nut

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needing loosening from a bolt, so the tree

can truly float away with the bumblers.

If, with slow care, you climb to the second

or third crook of the tree, you can be there

vibrating within the great hum; you can feel

trembling limbs turning night dew into gold.

 

Dennis Camire can be reached at denniscamire@hotmail.com

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