Fly this fast and the world never looks the same,
the tipsy universe whips by in a wing’s beat.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A spontaneous leap into a new space age,
escaping an exhausted flower, ignoring old sign-posts.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A sharp honey bee on her way to the wild side of the garden,
too chic for her own good.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Returning home with ill-gotten gains,
slicing through the garden,
skyscraper stems bend and sway,
a scale model speeds through space.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

One of my honey bee images was published in the latest issue of Greenpeace Magazin
in Germany.
 

It’s a nicely designed magazine, with some excellent content.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

The tough, public face of the 4th annual
National Pollinator Week,
a hunter-gatherer full of pollen to the point
of rebellion, the fruits of her labor
taken to bizarrely stylish extremes.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A miraculous pollen-seeker,
energy enough to exhaust
the average hunter-gatherer,
mixes bravura style and performance
in the greatest American road trip.
 

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Spent some time this week with the Beehive Project
at the Russell Industrial complex,
a community of artists in Detroit building a human-sized
beehive sculpture which will debut at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival
at Hart Plaza this weekend.

A battleship costumed in ocher and black stripes,
Bombus impatiens, animating the everyday
with aster-blasting distraction.
 

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Bumblebee | Bombus impatiens

A bumblebee trip fueled by sunlight packets,
a brief appearance speeding through aster space,
only to disappear again into
fifty thousand watts’ of setting sun.
 

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Bumblebee | Bombus impatiens

My wildlife art just had its debut at the Bees in Art Gallery in the UK,
sister gallery to The Land Gallery, exhibiting artwork by leading artists
inspired by bees and other insects.

 
The center of the bee universe finds a group of foraging bees
jumping the sun on their return to the hive,
phantoms eclipsing the golden portal to eternity.