Not all bees write back
Not every beetle takes the right route
Some letters, like roads, wind on regardless.
We don’t always notice the sting
Until after, until later, until it’s too late.
Honey is sometimes sweetest
When far from reach.
We wrote words on each other’s back
Thinking time to be tender but we couldn’t turn around
To see how they’d both twisted.
These love letters- like journeys with no maps
One of us always the backseat driver of the beetle
Such stings from the boot.
Not all bees write back.
All words and photographs by Damien B Donnelly
Inspired by a Twitter Poetry Prompt from Cobh Readers and Writers