Black-crested Night Heron
Went inside for the very first time
quite unsettling actually
Be careful my dear,
can the dead harm the living?
Ironic in light of radio broadcasts today
Africanized bees in a hive in nearby Concord
turned on a bee-keeper
and surrounding neighborhood
this weekend killing one or two small dogs,
Though the predictable hysteria
will be to try to ban backyard bee hives
experts say that will encourage
the Africanized bees to take over
The other report dealt with colony collapse
unsustainable at this point
Due most likely to nicotinic pesticides
The further irony today
is that these beesseem to
be the only things here still alive,
maybe the motionless tarantula
It's a strange
oddly obsolescent place
through lively kids frequent the joint
An almost morbid feeling
Cabinet of dark wonders
The badger and the bear
Have more bald spots than hair
All about who eats whom
Family pets
inherit the wild beasts' domain
Enforced by uniformed wardens
Just outside
they are all still alive
Make no mistake
Embalming, taxidermy, preserved skulls, etcetera
notwithstanding
Death is the biological end
The bees seemed agitated
the buzzing verged on delirium
in my bee's-waxed ears
Let no dog or man forget it
Return to the bird sanctuary
To ask the orphic, oracular bird
some Egyptic questions
Nature is everything
eating everything
all the time
15 May 2016
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