{"id":844,"date":"2020-09-23T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2020-10-23T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T18:43:20","slug":"declining-bees-and-revisiting-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Declining Bees and Revisiting Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this poem and photo some time ago and it resurfaced today, a memory from the midwestern home where I grew up. Readers of my blog and those who know me may have even seen a version of this a number of years back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, as publication edges nearer, I recall more clearly the images that I re-encounter when I answer interview questions of my own making and discuss matters of revisiting trauma, of wounded healers, of life today for so many survivors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seemingly unrelated topics like the declining bee population across the globe come to my mind because I\u2019m reading Helen Jukes\u2019 amazing book,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/helen-jukes\/a-honeybee-heart-has-five-openings\/\">\u00a0<em>A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>and her admonition that saving bees isn\u2019t done by adding and caring for more bee hives. It\u2019s done by caring for the world the bees depend on\u2014the wildflower pastures, the meadows and grasslands and prairies and woodlands that are being lost to corporate agriculture and \u201curban sprawl.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Our heartlessness. Our habitat fragmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My whole self fragmented in my early life. There are so many others like me. Fixing the house is only the beginning of fixing the world that supports us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>Revisiting Home After Fifty Years<\/em>\n\nThe porch is gone, and the sloping screen\ndoor. The peeling clapboards look like\nsiding and the roof is new. Insects flew\nright in the torn screen door. Even the cat\nfound entry. It was a broken place. Muffled\n\nsounds from the house faded away under\nthe porch. It was quiet. In my refuge, \na child's cave, the dirt seemed sifted, soft\nas talcum, as a kiss. Hazy particles swam\n\nunfiltered through shadows in dusty clouds\nand held me. The porch is gone, also the screen \nand the house no longer cries for paint. May it\nplease be better in this new unbroken place.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-659x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-659x1024.png 659w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image-768x1193.png 768w, https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image.png 834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this poem and photo some time ago and it resurfaced today, a memory from the midwestern home where I grew up. 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