Honey

This week I learned that one worker honeybee makes about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifespan. This set off an entire chain of awe and reverence and connections of metaphors to metaphors and today’s seed of a draft.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI touch the tip of my tongue like a sacramentto my honey-coated finger.Sweetness enters slowly coating tongue, throat, oozing to collect in the belly.Swallow with reverencethe entire life work of this honey beeAnswer the lingering sweetness with the opening arch of a body knowing