Judith Bishop

31e Festival franco-anglais de poésie
Sculpture sur prose 2 / Prose Sculpture 2

Poème

 

 

Defence Mechanism

 

Listen: it will not stop, ever,
the imaginary conversation

of bees and hornets.

It evolved in the forests,
social and silent,

the pheromone's signal:
I'll be back - Respond -

The next act - retreat -
draws a rush to confront.

Nature
is the secret weapon from Hell.

Texte d'origine

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Article de Simon D. Pollard ,« Quivering balls of death », paru dans Nature Australia, printemps 2005, p. 66-67)