Bumblebee

‘But, the para-site is both inside and outside the system and it is this dilemma which perturbs and agitates the very logic of the binary system: it produces movement and turbulence, without which nothing new would come about in our world.’

- Silent Images by Vit Hopley and Yve Lomax

You are the crackle — in-between
radio-stations — yes, you are yellow-noise.

Your six legs, like lost eyelashes — perch
on an inhale, the wisteria’s gasp.

Stilled, your once-dithering wings are used
cellophane wrappers from boiled penny sweets

now swallowed. Pollen and flower. Words
leave my mouth fuzzy, tumbling,

lost for an ear. Six stuffed sweet-peas
are blushing blue. For you are and.

The indecipherable translator,
figure-bound in fertile bumps.

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