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John Colman Wood teaches at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His field research with Gabra nomads of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

His fiction has appeared in Anthropology and Humanism, and he has twice won the Ethnographic Fiction Prize of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, once for a story extracted from The Names of Things.

He is the author of When Men Are Women: Manhood among Gabra Nomads of East Africa (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999). Before becoming an anthropologist, Wood was a journalist.

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Bee lines


Bees etch paths in airfrom hive to tulip treeand back to hive again.
I’ve watched them go and come,their flights, like cursive scripts,never straight but onward.
If a hive has myriad beesthink of the traces they leave,the lines they scratch in air,
each recorded, drop by drop,in soft wax tabletswith stylus tongues.

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