
Ross White, teaching assistant professor and director of the creative writing program in the department of English and comparative literature, shares a new poem from his debut poetry collection, Charm Offensive.
WONDERS NEVER CEASE
All day bees built honeycombs
around the sleepers,
weaving wax
into hexagons, laying in honey,
sealing the walls.
Work which might
have taken months,
all in an afternoon.
The sleepers dreamed of corn cobs
and race cars,
of Egyptian burial rituals.
The dreams were fitful, but the sleepers
hardly shifted
as thin wings sputtered
around them, larva maturing in minutes.
The sleepers slept peacefully,
their arms crossed
as though
they had been laid,
lifeless,
in a pharoah’s tomb.
Each of us has only minutes left to live.
Ruin lies in rushing through.
By Ross White
“Wonders Never Cease” is from Charm Offensive, the debut poetry collection by Ross White, teaching assistant professor and director of the creative writing program in the department of English and comparative literature. White is winner of the Sexton Poetry Prize and the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
Published in the Spring 2024 issue | Chapter & Verse
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