Their work is a helix of holding patterns A vexed blackhead on a narrowing radar.... /
Tag: insects
Eremocene
It is impossible to maintain a rooted perspective - Heraclitus observed as he openly wept... /
An Untitled Insect
It once had a name - by dint of those orange-tipped wings - and on my tongue's tip too - a too-rare flitted hurdler of garden hedges and fences No one else cared Such is our loss of simplicity that even a vibrating bee's hum seems misplaced - mechanical Our young dog was spell-bound by … Continue reading An Untitled Insect
Bee
Their massed die-offs are merely statistics fixed by white-suited pollinators in huge trucks of profit who are forever re-filling their hired-out hives between pollen buyers and ramping-up bee prices Colonies will collapse under modern diseases - by man-spread illnesses and by slicings of trade Neonicotinoids may kill the striped-arse armies - but other - larger … Continue reading Bee
Comforts
A pint on a Monday - at lunchtime? Things must be bad - Michael - And so they are - but I only offer lies above salted crumbs on my table - small pieces - but shiftable boulders to summer's soon-invigorated ants - able to heft such burdens of others' relative insignificance - of leftovers … Continue reading Comforts
Insect Hunting
There was that microcosm fixing my dawdled childhood in which I centred myself in a kneeled-to wondering .../