Calliope Inguz

Here I am again, night before, scrambling to get ready. Bioneers, the Sergeant Pepper Edition. Looking back on what I said on this night last year, hey, it's still true! Copy, paste, post:

I heard Janine Benyus on the radio. She told of just learning how bees vote. When it's time to find a new hive, maybe five percent of the bees, the ones who are really good foragers, go out and start looking. A single bee might spend an hour or two exploring a hollow tree, getting a really good sense of what… Continue

A butterfly sometimes emerges when the pressure
falls and the storm arrives
instead of when the pressure rises
and the glorious day after begins

A butterfly sometimes emerges in the cold and dark
still growing strong with the strain of breaking out
pushing with impossible strength to crack
its own shell and protection
pulling with impossible power found in new legs
no sticky nubs these
but seraphic instruments and levers
pumping
pumping
heartsblood coursing into soft expanding wings
new structu… Continue

Tripping over my clutter I scramble to get ready.

I heard Janine Benyus on the radio. She told of just learning how bees vote. When it's time to find a new hive, maybe five percent of the bees, the ones who are really good foragers, go out and start looking. A single bee might spend an hour or two exploring a hollow tree, getting a really good sense of what it's like.

When the foragers come back, they dance the stories of what they've found - of course where it is, but also how excited they ar… Continue