pale purple flowers
could even be weeds
albeit pretty ones at that
all day every day
whenever I care to look
he’s there, worrying the delicate flimsy heads
a bumble Bee, a portly chap,
bounces like a tightrope walker
too heavy for the tensile blooms
a bulging corbicula
strapped to his knees
baggy trousers brimming
all day every day
this aerial dance continues
pinballing to and from the buffet
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© Graham Sherwood 07/21
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