Bumblebees
Kimiko Hahn

The foraging bee that doesn’t make it
back to the hive

and companion warmth
fastens to a leaf.

Bumbling-bees?

Or does the nectar so distract

it forgets the cells
called home?

The lapse is a cause for concern
the entomologist reports—

because its tiny body slows to the stillness of dew.
Is that quiescence

or acquiescence?

Or simply stupidity
one always forgets a day later?