[討論] The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient

[kamadevas (蔗尾蜂房)]

The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve

Yi-Fen Chou (Michael Derrick Hudson)



Huh! That bumblebee looks ridiculous staggering its way


across those blue flowers, the ones I can never
 remember the name of. Do you know the old engineer’s


joke: that, theoretically, bees can’t fly? But they look so


perfect together, like Absolute Purpose incarnate: one bee
 plus one blue flower equals about a billion


years of symbiosis. Which leads me to wonder what it is


I’m doing here, peering through a lens at the thigh-pouches
 stuffed with pollen and the baffling intricacies


of stamen and pistil. Am I supposed to say something, add
 a soundtrack and voiceover? My life’s spent


running an inept tour for my own sad swindle of a vacation


until every goddamned thing’s reduced to botched captions
 and dabs of misinformation in fractured,


not-quite-right English: Here sir, that’s the very place Jesus


wept. The Colosseum sprouts and blooms with leftover seeds
pooped by ancient tigers. Poseidon diddled


Philomel in the warm slap of this ankle-deep surf to the dying
stings of a thousand jellyfish. There, probably,


atop yonder scraggly hillock, Adam should’ve said no to Eve.

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