{"id":5714,"date":"2020-12-07T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&p=5714"},"modified":"2020-12-07T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:00:45","slug":"the-murder-hornet","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/the-murder-hornet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murder Hornet"},"content":{"rendered":"

can fly sixty miles in a day<\/p>\n

& decapitate its prey<\/p>\n

quicker than licking<\/p>\n

honey off a thumb.<\/p>\n

Size has its advantages.
\n& its costs. My mom
\ntold me early I\u2019d pay<\/p>\n

for the size of my heart.<\/p>\n

You feel too much, <\/em>she said.
\nYou want too much.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

In the Love Addicts Anonymous<\/p>\n

meeting, a white man in a gold ascot<\/p>\n

said, I need to be devoured by love.<\/em><\/p>\n

Devastated,<\/em> I added,\u00a0swallowed whole.<\/em><\/p>\n

Murder hornets are efficient killers,<\/p>\n

but is any torture more elegant<\/p>\n

than chasing what you\u2019ll never catch?<\/p>\n

There was one time in my life<\/p>\n

my heart felt right-sized,<\/p>\n

quiet, & I was so at peace<\/p>\n

I was invisible. The robin<\/p>\n

thought I was a chair or tree<\/p>\n

the easy way she cleaned<\/p>\n

her feathers near my feet.<\/p>\n

More often my feelings swarm,<\/p>\n

a storm surge, how water alone<\/p>\n

can warp metal, level a village.<\/p>\n

When I keep feelings at bay<\/p>\n

I appear okay, recalling<\/p>\n

how Gulliver\u2019s giant size<\/p>\n

made him too dangerous<\/p>\n

to keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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