June 12, 2006

Yellow Jackets by Gary L. McDowell

Julie: Hot diggity but I like that. (Tiny oddness in using "paper" instead of "papier" plus "mâché," but perhaps that's a typo, or hell a stylistic choice.) Like all good prose poetry, this one uses the form to advantage, sending out a cascade of words that rush by, as thick as bees. Oh, I guess that's a quibble. Yellow jackets are a variety of wasp so they wouldn't have honey in their hives. But I could be missing that point.

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