The Blog from the Core - "On a Bumblebee"

Core: noun, the most important part of a thing, the essence; from the Latin cor, meaning heart.

		The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thu. 08/24/06 08:12:15 AM


		"On a Bumblebee" One of my poems turns Sweet Sixteen today. On a Bumblebee (August 24, 1990) No. August is the cruellest month: see, a bumblebee sits on the dwarf snapdragon, many-flowered— purple petals, most, with white chins, huddling, hugging ground-close, spilling over sidewalk— sits perfectly poised, grasping flower, ready to work; sits perfectly still, all evening still; sits perfectly dead. Lustreless black, dirty yellow, lifeless legs, still wings: it carries now no careless menace about, yet bears still strength in death to cling to the living— oh silent harbinger (yes) of autumn's coming, summer to tread. E. L. Core See also "Summer Day's Course" and "The Eve of June". Confer. Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 08/24/06 08:12:15 AM Categorized as Literary.

Cor ad cor loquitur — J. H. Newman — “Heart speaks to heart”