June 8, 2012
This evening we walked around the area below the limestone boulders, among darkening shadows and lush foliage well watered (three or four inches of rain above the yearly average by this date).
The first six images below were taken in deep dusk with the aid of a tripod.
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| Thousands of bees fifteen feet high in a cedar elm |
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| False gromwell, Marble seed (Onosmodium bejariense) |
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| Plenty of persimmon fruit this year--almost none last year. |
And a couple from Harlin:
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| Sand Bells (Nama hispidum) |
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| Bladderpod, Buffpetal (Rhynchosida physocalyx) |
Disposable Fly Trap Instructions
“Never seal dead flies in a closed container.”
And that is that.
The wife bought the hanging fly trap—
Clear plastic bucket one fills with
Noxious fluid meant to attract flies.
So it hangs outside the screen door.
But with the fly trap came,
I kid you not, neatly tucked inside the trap,
“Disposable fly trap instructions,” as if
I would keep them for a poem or something.
They tell one how to take and fill bottle
To appropriate level, then hang near flies
(See diagram A). And on and on until
the bottom of the Yellow sheet:
“Never seal dead flies in a closed container.”
How long until I would have thought of
Doing such a bold or happy thing as that?
Will the boys, who have not read
As you and I the yellow sheet,
And who are painfully free from mothers,
Gather now in a neighbor’s garage
Some hot afternoon and secretly
Seal dead flies in a closed container?
Or have I misunderstood?
Is the emphasis on “seal,”
As if one may safely place dead flies in
A closed—but unsealed—container?
No, I rather sense the real meat of the
Warning concerns the dead flies that
Will soon be crowding the surface of
undisturbed fluid like so many housewives
Napping on inflatable mattresses in a
Backyard swimming pool
(See diagram B).
Never seal dead flies in a closed container.
