I never feel like I could be in your league.

Writing isn’t baseball, to me. Mostly, I just compete against myself. This post, for example, is in part an attempt to improve upon some images I used in the title poem of a manuscript I put together about five years ago, “Capturing the Hive.” I was initially thinking of including it here, but on re-reading it, found that I didn’t really like it any more. In any case, Bobby, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you’ve got stories that nobody else can tell — and some of them are pretty damn compelling, from what I’ve seen. I might be inclined to be a little envious of that, if I were in the habit of comparing myself with others.

Pablo – Yeah, I was worried when alarmist stories about the mite outbreak began to circulate in the media a few years back. We did see a dramatic fall-off in the numbers of honeybees going in and out of our deceased neighbor’s derelict house, but after just a couple of years, they started to pick back up. Maybe the bees learned how to defend themselves against the new invaders. As you suggest, this swarm is a very hopeful sign.

Your posts are nothing short of art.

I never feel like I could be in your league.

And yes, the last bit sticks.

I loved the whole post — the description, the images — but especially the closing image of trying to lure a god into a shrine, or poems into a computer.