By when the beekeeper came, it was too late. The frenzied
flying forth and back was ended, stopped
as if wings were unimportant. Finished in stiff stillness,
while bees still wrestled underneath the hive.
Body locked with sweet-furred body, rolling
on the woodchips at the frame’s calm
legs. No more humming. That once silo—arsenal—
crêche now stripped. The stores of honey,
gone. The stacks of beebread, lost. The fat
white coddled larvae, once adream and waiting
to unroll, now reft. Even the neat cells, marvels
of stable fit and coralline commitment, breached,
devoured. Somewhere near, a hive is hoarding up
its pilfered treasure, spewing up the stolen sweets.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 25, Issue 3.
Mary Ann Dimand was born in Southern Illinois where Union North met Confederate South, and her work is shaped by kinships and conflicts: economics and theology, farming and feminism and history. Dimand holds an MA in economics from Carleton University, an MPhil from Yale University, and an MDiv from Iliff School of Theology. Some of her previous publication credits include: The History of Game Theory Volume I: From the Beginnings to 1945; The Foundations of Game Theory; and Women of Value: Feminist Essays on the History of Women in Economics, among others.
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