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