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Thursday, November 03, 2022

TRIOLET ON A CADENCE FROM ELIZABETH BISHOP

by A. E. Stallings


Arugga AI has created Polly, the first AI-powered pollination robot. It can recognize 97% of all plant specimens.


We’d rather have the robot than the bee 
Although it meant the end of honey 
And honey’s aureate anthology. 
We’d rather have the robot than the bee. 
Greenhouses, hushed, far as the eye can see:
No buzz sweeter than money! 
We’d rather have the robot than the bee, 
Although it meant the end of honey. 


A.E. Stallings is an American-born poet and translator who lives in Greece. Her most recent volume, Like, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A selected poems, This Afterlifeis forthcoming in December from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.