Contents
Foreword
Bill McKibben
Introduction
James P. Lenfestey
Sherman Alexie
In the Matter of Human v. Bee
Maureen Ash
Swarm
Thorsten Bacon
On Bees
Aliki Barnstone
Alas
Willis Barnstone
Eleven Tiny Commandments
John Barr
First Light
Tree Bernstein
A/B/C Scenarios
Barry Blumenfeld
Boy with Honeybee Hair
Robert Bly
Words Rising
Sean Borodale
24th May: Collecting the Bees
6th September: Wild Comb Notes
10th February: Queen
Karina Borowicz
Medicine
Ruins
David Bottoms
Cemetery Wings
Jill Breckenridge
Honey
Fleda Brown
Bees
Robert Burns
Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw
John Burnside
Melissographia
John Caddy
Two New World Bees
Carpenter Bee
Leaf Cutter Bee
Jared Carter
Landing the Bees
Sharon Chmielarz
Bees
Lucille Clifton
earth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
Lorna Crozier
Angel of Bees
Annie Deppe
The Sacrament of the Bees
Emily Dickinson
With Flowers
The bee is not afraid of me
Possession
Two Worlds
The Bee
Could I but ride indefinite
The pedigree of honey
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Josephine Dickinson
B
Carol Ann Duffy
Bees
Ariel
Virgil's Bees
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Humble-Bee
Heid E. Erdrich
Intimate Detail
Stung
Earl of Essex (Robert Devereaux)
The Buzzeinge Bee's Complaynt
John Evans
The Bees
Diane Fahey
Bees
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Alienation: Two Bees
Nick Flynn
Workers (Attendants)
Hive
Blind Huber (iii)
Queen
Stuart Friebert
Supersedure
Ross Gay
Ode to the Beekeeper
Eamon Grennan
Up Against It
Barbara Hamby
The Language of Bees
Tom Hennen
Outside Work
Jim Heynen
The Man Who Talked to His Bees
Selima Hill
Elegy for the Bee-God
Brenda Hillman
In Summer, Everything is Something's Twin
Jane Hirshfield
Bees
Kevin Holden
Bees
Issa
Haiku
Helen Hunt Jackson
My Bees: An Allegory
Naomi Jackson
Prairie Bees
George Johnston
Ecstatic
Susan Deborah King
Prayer
Rudyard Kipling
The Bee-Boy's Song
D. H. Lawrence
Flapper
David Lee
On Finding a Drone Bee and a Painted Lady in the Same Claret Cup of Cactus Blossom
James P. Lenfestey
Honey
Blaming the Bee
Nathaniel Max Lenfestey
Beard of Bees
Her Sting
Diane Lockward
Invective Against the Bumblebee
Antonio Machado
Song
Proverbs and Songs
Last Night, As I Lay Sleeping
Bruce MacKinnon
The Bees
Osip Mandelstam
The Necklace
Thomas McCarthy
Foraging Honey-Bees
Paula Meehan
The January Bee
Robert Morgan
Bees Awater
Honey
Moving the Bees
Lisel Mueller
Life of a Queen
Amy Nash
Not Just a Question of Fertility
Pablo Neruda
Ode to the Bee
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Bee Wolf
Joan Nicholson
Antics of Bees
Naomi Shihab Nye
Honeybee
Bees Were Better
Pollen
Mary Oliver
Happiness
Honey at the Table
Joe Paddock
A Sort of Honey
Linda Pastan
The Death of the Bee
Sylvia Plath
The Bee Meeting
Stings
Lia Purpura
Bee
Jeri Reilly
Honey
Jame