Apiary
Honey
Put the smoker out.
Night extraction, a honey house. Dagyeong will not put down the centrifugal extractor. “Put the smoker out.” Leave through the filtering-room door here, and you just strain honey.
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About this work
Night extraction. A honey house. Beeswax and propolis. Dagyeong is the beekeeper of this mountain. The veil hangs on a hook, linen shirt, sticky wrists. On her left ring finger a thin gold band sticks the same way the honey does. His apiary is another mountain.
“Put the smoker out.” Go out to the filtering room and the night ends as straining. Stay in the extract room, and the night shift becomes a married affair in first-person POV.
Characters
- DagyeongBeekeeper · married
- MeNarrator · seasonal help
- HusbandApiary on another mountain · mentioned
