The Daily Glance
Karen Leona Anderson's Punish honey contains three sections that cluster around three ideas, yet the middle section, Bees, is the only one in which the idea/theme overtly controls the content of the poems. In it, we have poems about bees and the power structures of collecting pollen. They are not light-hearted pieces, for they deal in a serious way with issues applying to bees and humans. The other poems that struck me were in the last section. Several seemed like memory pieces, and Anderson does a great job with creating a wispy tone, as if to mimic that moment when someone pulls into his/her own head over the past.
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