A Confluence of Circumstance – The Millbrook Independent

A Confluence of Circumstance – The Millbrook Independent

Poem and photo by Neil Donnelly At the back of the house, on my route to the compost place, sudden overhead buzzing makes me look up, and there on the eaves, a bee’s nest and a swarm, now a squadron, zooming down, then a blow, a clenched fist. I’m fast indoors. Faster still, jacket off and onto the floor tumbles, a tiny, perfectly formed, once incautious, too curious, reckless, teenage wasp. It had been pursued with murderous intent and was now …