Novena for the Year of the Bumblebee
on the Spaceship at the End of the World
(after Karen An-hwei Lee’s “Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine”)
All Rise & Recite:
May we settle on a planet near a lavender sun
where nothing is bitter or greedy or cruel. May we stand on a turret-stone
on the unbroken planet, and look out at the ruins
of all the things that came before us
and see all the things that will come.… Read the rest