Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate. Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another?
In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time; our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet; and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.