The question’s why do we need mud wasps - or

mason bees if you’ve a predilection fantasy - oh

the idea’s prejudice-free, not that we are wrong

or right in discretion by excepting predisposition

for censuring clay as a true reason for so-called

lack of stability, such that feet play a model role

where what we want is to be ‘ceramic-baked’ in

a mould of permanence wombs can’t provide

Then there is the idea we really need the bee’s

habits to draw a conclusion that sand & saliva’s

best at illustrating the irony of persistence as a

means to an end naturally, rather than any feet

of clay analogies we’ve difficulty conceiving; its

true too that bees don’t see it so either way

Yellow Potter Wasp - Delta campaniforme

Poetry from the Creek