Posts Tagged ‘David Wagoner’
Falling Asleep in the Garden
By David Wagoner All day the bees have come to the garden. They hover, swivel in arcs and, whirling, light On stamens heavy with pollen, probe and revel Inside the yellow and red starbursts of dahlias Or cling to lobelia’s blue-white mouths Or climb the speckled trumpets of foxgloves. My restless eyes follow their restlessness…
Read MoreThe Garden’s Hum: Bees in Verse from Lawrence to Wagoner
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Bees in the garden. July 6, 2020 Today’s poems hum with the golden sound of summer—the steady, sacred buzz of bees.…
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