Bin Ramke

 

 

Blue Winged Scoliid or Polistes Metricus

 

the beautiful blue wasps of my childhood

slender wings the same substance as head

thorax     petiole       wing      sting

 

articulated bodies of polistes, vespidae

the articulation of my connection

             the worlds

the words          the little cells

 

their hotly constructed paper houses

in the dark hot corners of our houses

 

I know or have been told the texture of brain

is more like vapor than paper      imagine

such softness as hard thoughts fly through

waspish with sting and shine of hard

surface           hexagonal engineering

 

 

 

Devorah Baum

Sven Birkerts

A. C. Grayling

Ferris Jabr

Rebecca Priestley

David Toomey