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A\u00a0 Fist Full of Bees<\/strong><\/p>\n (for Bob)<\/p>\n The bumble bees were\u00a0 furry You caught them one by one Their whirring wings When your mother opened your\u00a0 fist though you had not been\u00a0 stung.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Juliet Wilson<\/strong> is an adult education tutor and conservation volunteer based in Edinburgh. She blogs at Crafty Green Poet<\/a>\u00a0 and edits the online poetry journal Bolts of Silk.<\/a> Her poetry chapbook Unthinkable Skies<\/em> was published in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\u00a0 Fist Full of Bees (for Bob) The bumble bees were\u00a0 furry like your favourite cat You caught them one by one stroked\u00a0 them gently and held them in your tiny fist. Their whirring wings tickled your skin as they buzzed. When your mother opened your\u00a0 fist the bees escaped and you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlike your favourite cat<\/p>\n
\nstroked\u00a0 them gently
\nand held them in your tiny fist.<\/p>\n
\ntickled your skin
\nas they buzzed.<\/p>\n
\nthe bees escaped
\nand you cried<\/p>\n