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And mated with local bees

they created a masterpiece

of evolutionary advantage and a menace

to the whole talon hook by which

South America dangles from the north.

Apis mellifera adansonii, or

“our fury will visit like a storm”

belligerated in response to the Rhodesian

stone age that hustled them from hives

torchwise, a stinging insult

to the migrants, who would’ve left

in season. Captured and shipped

to Brazil to—what else?—increase production,

they flourished more as flame

than flower, and now, take down deer,

children, the odd cow, their vengeance ichor,

anger power.