Approaches to the Beehive
How to 60s me. Bee husbandry can begin with honey and lip balm, but this is simply to entice you in. Teasing. Nature’s hexagon – not for beauty but for a minimum of materials. There is a noise of industry we apply widely to make servitude sound like fun. Piled up in a conical shape. It is not like a wasps’ nest you might drown in diesel. The bouffant of backcombing ever higher. No, not the B-52s dropping secret bombs into Cambodia. The queen excluder is a manipulation by the masses.
Sword Swallower Swallowing Swords
But not when speaking the title. A tongue twister in more ways than one. With esophagus ease. How the aorta watches for its reflection in a shine of steel sliding by. It is all in the irony of repressing deglutition. The Space Cowboy as a sharps router. Saliva glide. Circus and sideshow and hospital. Fakirs who were genuine. Nudging your heart to the left is a libertine politics of the existential. Can danger really be blunted by lack of a razor edge? There is a swallow murmuration but the swallower must make no sound.
I Think That You Often Are
The sudden uncontrolled giggle is an obvious giveaway when so much is otherwise pained. There are those who are on a world stage and do it there, despicably. It is a phrasal verb, but I thought there might be some literary trace. Fibbing, as when the cocks and bulls discourse with similar tell-tales on faces. And the tendency to buckle over, knees bent, trying to stifle this confession. Knowing there is our symbiosis – how often we lock little fingers, that life-long superstition, wishing for the same cure – you’d think I would recognise the deception more immediately.
Mike Ferguson is an American permanently resident in the UK and published widely online. His most recent print publications include Professions [The Red Ceilings Press, 2018] and the music poems anthology Yesterday’s Music Today co-edited with Rupert Loydell [Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015]. A retired English teacher, he taught experimental writing to his students for 30 years.
How to 60s me. Bee husbandry can begin with honey and lip balm, but this is simply to entice you in. Teasing. Nature’s hexagon – not for beauty but for a minimum of materials. There is a noise of industry we apply widely to make servitude sound like fun. Piled up in a conical shape. It is not like a wasps’ nest you might drown in diesel. The bouffant of backcombing ever higher. No, not the B-52s dropping secret bombs into Cambodia. The queen excluder is a manipulation by the masses.
Sword Swallower Swallowing Swords
But not when speaking the title. A tongue twister in more ways than one. With esophagus ease. How the aorta watches for its reflection in a shine of steel sliding by. It is all in the irony of repressing deglutition. The Space Cowboy as a sharps router. Saliva glide. Circus and sideshow and hospital. Fakirs who were genuine. Nudging your heart to the left is a libertine politics of the existential. Can danger really be blunted by lack of a razor edge? There is a swallow murmuration but the swallower must make no sound.
I Think That You Often Are
The sudden uncontrolled giggle is an obvious giveaway when so much is otherwise pained. There are those who are on a world stage and do it there, despicably. It is a phrasal verb, but I thought there might be some literary trace. Fibbing, as when the cocks and bulls discourse with similar tell-tales on faces. And the tendency to buckle over, knees bent, trying to stifle this confession. Knowing there is our symbiosis – how often we lock little fingers, that life-long superstition, wishing for the same cure – you’d think I would recognise the deception more immediately.
Mike Ferguson is an American permanently resident in the UK and published widely online. His most recent print publications include Professions [The Red Ceilings Press, 2018] and the music poems anthology Yesterday’s Music Today co-edited with Rupert Loydell [Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015]. A retired English teacher, he taught experimental writing to his students for 30 years.