Yearlong

"Yearlong" is concerned about the bees, and struggles to exhume the small beauties embedded into encompassing atrocities. The poem wonders about the obligations of doing this exhuming now, on the cusp of what may be the sixth mass extinction, exploring the moral quandaries and necessities of this poetic compulsion to ornament our potential demise with meditations on objects and subjects we deem beautiful—not to turn away from said demise, but to urgently attempt to uncover the implicit relationship between self-destruction and the persistence and possibility of beauty, however imagined.