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The Bee’s Fur

A Field of Charged Bloom

By Tim CarmichaelPublished about a month ago 1 min read
The Bee’s Fur
Photo by Proinsias Mac an Bheatha on Unsplash

A faint shimmer gathers around the drifting creature
as it moves through the warm field of color.
Something invisible trembles there,
a charged tension rising from each bloom,
a subtle vibration reaching toward the soft fuzz
that covers its small traveling body.
The moment it hovers near a bloom,
tiny grains leap toward it
as though pulled by an unseen charge.
They spring upward in bright bursts,
sticking to the fuzz in sudden constellations.

The creature circles slowly,
its movement stirring the charged field.
Each bloom emits a delicate static,
a restless energy seeking contact.
The fuzz becomes a magnet for these particles,
drawing them in clusters
that gather along its drifting limbs.
The grains seem alive with anticipation,
quivering before they leap,
as though the world is full of signals
trying to reach their destination.

A soft crackle fills the moment
as the bee moves from bloom to bloom.
The field around it vibrates
with tiny collisions of possibility.
Each grain carries a story
that begins the instant it touches the fuzz,
a story of travel, of transfer,
of restless motion seeking completion.
The creature becomes a vessel of static,
a wandering conductor
through a landscape of charged color.

Static lives in this exchange,
in the trembling field between bloom and traveler,
in the bright leap of each grain
as it holds on to the fuzz
and waits for its next journey.

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About the Creator

Tim Carmichael

Let your becoming be louder than your fear, and your smallest steps become the road you once thought impossible to walk. An Appalachian poet and cookbook author my book Beautiful and Brutal Things is on Amazon, Link 👇

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    Written by Tim Carmichael