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ngs too dangerous to touch.</p><p id="3ee0">Maybe the shift away from innocence is filled with venom. On the other hand, what if the future is beauty that hums electric stings us only when we fall back to sleep?</p><p id="c5f6">Originally published in <i>Menacing Hedge</i></p><p id="c06b">This poem was inspired by the amazing “Girl with a Bee Dress” by <a href="https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2015/12/Maggie-Taylor.html">Maggie Taylor. </a>If you search for her work online, you might recognize some of the surreal, evocative images from the introduction to “Ghost Whisperer.” That is where I first saw <a href="http://www.catherinecouturier.com/exhibitions/previous-exhibitions/maggie-taylor-no-ordinary-days/">“Girl with a Bee Dre

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ss</a>” and afterward I got obsessed with Taylor’s art. She produces prints by scanning objects into a computer then layering and changing the images using Adobe Photoshop.</p><p id="33c4">You might also like:</p><div id="b2e9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/post-chemo-45b03fdda0de"> <div> <div> <h2>Post Chemo</h2> <div><h3>Sometimes it’s easy to disappear</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*hQNor3K_fwCHZ9eG)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Girl in a Bee Dress

after Maggie Taylor

Photo by Rodolfo Sanches Carvalho on Unsplash

Whether the bees are arriving or departing is an unsolved mystery. The pink daisy held with both hands offers no information.

As for the girl, her eyes are twin lakes that drown reflection. The mouth stays silent too — curves in no direction as her body becomes a gown of wings too dangerous to touch.

Maybe the shift away from innocence is filled with venom. On the other hand, what if the future is beauty that hums electric stings us only when we fall back to sleep?

Originally published in Menacing Hedge

This poem was inspired by the amazing “Girl with a Bee Dress” by Maggie Taylor. If you search for her work online, you might recognize some of the surreal, evocative images from the introduction to “Ghost Whisperer.” That is where I first saw “Girl with a Bee Dress” and afterward I got obsessed with Taylor’s art. She produces prints by scanning objects into a computer then layering and changing the images using Adobe Photoshop.

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