Brother And Sister Wasp Poem by Dennis Ryan

Monday morning, July 30,2018 at 11: 03 a.m.; Thursday morning, August 2,2018 at 9: 51 p.m.; Tuesday evening, August 7 at 6: 27 p.m.; Wednesday morning, August 8 at 7: 44 p.m.

'and Brother Wasp is building a very neat house of four rooms, one shaped like... '
- Ezra Pound, from Canto LXXXIII


Come and go as you please,
Brother and Sister Wasp, you've earned
access. I respect your toughness,
your utter determination to succeed,
your ability to survive despite
the odds. Despite killing some
of you, the majority return time
and again to protect the brude.

I watched you again this morning,
attending to your broken kingdom.
Fierce persistence! Staunch defense!
Best of luck! You remind me of that poet
who shared your industry, craft and vigor,
though he wrote vehemently of mud,
not paper from his open-air prison
in Italy in the days following the war.