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Securing the hive
Guard bees spread out, protect
the entrance, a foot wide
prepare to die. Permit in
only worker bees pollen-laden
happy to be home, loved
supplement the sustenance supply
pleasure their quivering queen.
Vapid wasps, keen to maraud
sense the protein, dive, kill at random
buzz inside, murder a few more, feed.
Congress takes no action.
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Timothy Pilgrim, a native of Montana and retired university journalism professor living in Bellingham, WA, is a Pacific Northwest poet and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have been accepted more than 500 times by journals such as Toasted Cheese, Mad Swirl, Cirque, Santa Ana River Review, Windsor Review, Hobart, Otoliths and Prole Press in the U.S. Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. He is the author of Mapping Water and Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems, which the back cover calls “a 10 on any Richter imagination scale.” |
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