Liz Kirby
Warwick

Market Square



The museum beehive.
Glass closed off
and opened out.

The life of the hive
was made plain.
Short syllables

returned in sleep
carrying their yellow
bundles. They came

and went without
regard to the torn
away side of the womb.

Double windows where
every grub cried out
its own fragile detail.

Cells full of light.
Inexorable attentions.
Unclosed rooms.