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The Apiarist

from Fish House Blues by Daniel Shaw

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I have a few friends that collect excellent honey. A friend coaxed away some wild bees that were exploring our chimney with a slab of icing sugar and a bee box. Bees are so vital and represent the vitality and health of nature, in our symbiosis, we steal or support them. Our exploitative but symbiotic relationship with our world.
I wrote this around Valentine’s day 2021, Valentine is the Patron Saint of Beekeepers (lovers and epileptics).

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Stealing Sweet Honey with smoke
Do the Bees love the thief
If she brings icing treats
When the flowers don’t give what they need?

A soft white slab melting in the morning dew
Giving sugar gifts to the queen
While we take treasured gifts from her daughters
Lapping the sweet pools under the rough palace.

And the Apiarist takes what she needs.

Does a hive leave a ghost
When a Princess births a new host?
Does her dance leave a mark
Between cells of chewed bark?

Does She whisper to Valentine
Dusting pollen from Columbines
Or heather from the hills behind:
The secret flowers that they find.

But the Apiarist takes what she needs.

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from Fish House Blues, released April 20, 2021

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Daniel Shaw Glastonbury, UK

Daniel Shaw based in Glastonbury & S.W.area.
Past work includes performances with the poet Laureate, Simon Armitage; & performances in Europe, Tennessee, Kolkatta and the Uk.
Daniel has also performed and recorded with the The Aardvarks, double bass & Bass with Mossflower, The Minor Works Unit, Mr Keep Calm & The Cancelled Cheques, The Blackdown Bluebirds andThe Duncan Batey Trio.
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