Schwery, Brion Blood in a Field of Marigolds. 2024. Radford University, Thesis. Radford University Scholars' Repository.
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Abstract
In the quiet hours of a soft spring morning, a low buzzing breaks through the air. The vibrations from the near-transparent wings of a small, gold and noir creature thump endlessly. It whirls through a wall of emerald, juniper, and moss until its eyes spy a new target. A pale and sweet-smelling structure many times larger than itself rising from the shifting earth below. It lands with satisfaction, knowing its purpose is once again fulfilled. It drinks in plenty and feels new joy. Such is the life of nature’s mathematical and lovely wonder: the honeybee. I have always held a deep fascination with the operations of their world. Such tiny creatures that naturally understand what our species took millennia to learn, building stable architecture and running logistics in a way early humans could never dream of. Yet they have such a beauty to them. They take naps inside flowers. They hold political debates through dance battles. They make candy that literally lasts forever. Honeybees are tiny, dramatic, pseudo-fairies that keep the world from falling into an eternity of starvation and the loss of all that is green and beautiful. That is why they have become the muse that has built my novella, Blood in a Field of Marigolds.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Divisions: | Radford University > College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences > Department of English |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2024 05:50 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2024 05:50 |
| URI: | http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/1116 |
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