bees were better:: las abejas eran mejores
Bees Were Better
In college, people were always breaking up.
We broke up in parking lots,
beside fountains.
Two people broke up
across a table from me
at the library.
I could not sit at that table again
though I did not know them.
I studied bees, who were able
to convey messages through dancing
and could find their ways
home to their hives
even if someone put up a blockade of sheets
and boards and wire.
Bees had radar in their wings and brains
that humans could barely understand.
I wrote a paper proclaiming
their brilliance and superiority
and revised it at a small café
featuring wooden hive-shaped honey-dippers
in silver honeypots
at every table.
Naomi Shihab Nye
In college, people were always breaking up.
We broke up in parking lots,
beside fountains.
Two people broke up
across a table from me
at the library.
I could not sit at that table again
though I did not know them.
I studied bees, who were able
to convey messages through dancing
and could find their ways
home to their hives
even if someone put up a blockade of sheets
and boards and wire.
Bees had radar in their wings and brains
that humans could barely understand.
I wrote a paper proclaiming
their brilliance and superiority
and revised it at a small café
featuring wooden hive-shaped honey-dippers
in silver honeypots
at every table.
Naomi Shihab Nye
If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems
Ed., James P. Lenfestey, University of Minnesota Press (2016)
Las abejas eran mejores
En la universidad, la gente siempre se estaba separando.
Nos separamos en estacionamientos,
al lado de las fuentes.
Dos personas se separaron
en una mesa frente a mí
en la biblioteca.
No pude sentarme en esa mesa de nuevo
aunque no los conocía.
Estudié las abejas, que podían
transmitir mensajes a través del baile
y encontrar su camino
a casa a sus colmenas
incluso si alguien bloqueara con sábanas
y tablas y alambre.
Las abejas tenían radar en sus alas y cerebros
que los humanos apenas pueden entender.
Escribí un documento proclamando
su brillantez y superioridad
y lo revisé en un pequeño café
con cucharones de madera en forma de colmena
en mieleras de plata
en cada mesa.
If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems
Ed., James P. Lenfestey, University of Minnesota Press (2016)
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