Wasp’s Honey by Martha McCollough
Martha McCollough’s latest animated poem appeared in Atticus Review on March 3, along with this artist’s statement:
Bees have many associations with death—they are sacred to Persephone and when there is a death in the beekeeper’s household they must be told and allowed to mourn. Through honey, they have associations with creativity—it is a Greek folk belief that if a bee touches the lips of a sleeping child, the child will be a singer or a poet. I wanted to keep this elegy simple and direct, so there is no voiceover, only visual text. The soundtrack was composed using the p22 text-to-music generator. Sections of the text were used to create a midi file, freely edited in Logic.
Click through for the bio, and watch more of McCollough’s stand-out poetry videos on Vimeo.
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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.
