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THE CELL
A cohort of the little peopleclusters together to form a cell;not just one, but many, to form a wall,a home, a larder, a nursery.
They have no tools but their own bodies,the sweat of which provides bricks and mortar.They have no guidance but their own: no architect, no foreman.The weight of their bodies, holding hands,provides the plumb lineso they build vertical and true.
The cell base is three adjacent trapezoids:one hundred and twenty degrees by sixty.Slightly bowed, it also forms the base of three cellsoffset on the far side of the wall.
Three trapezoids form a hexagon;one of the shapes that nature lovesrepeated on a larger scaleat the Giant's Causeway.
The cell walls run straight and true,but offset at an angle sloping up,so the contents do not spill.
How large? They must decide what size.They did this long before the metre was invented!Five to the inch for workers;four to the inch for drones,as they have done for fifty million years,as fossils prove.
From Bee People, my book of poems about bees and the people who keep them.
Chris
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