Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal.  Wonder Rooms by Allison Funk Let’s start here: “bestiary” is a wonderful word. To begin with the superficial, it is fun to say, beautiful in the mouth. Now deeper: the medieval makers of bestiaries, cataloguing animals both real and mythical, were mixers—art-with-text; mermaids-with-marmots; the scientific impulse to …

Originally appeared in ImageUpdate, a publication of IMAGE Journal.  Winged: New Writing on Bees edited by Melissa Reeser Poulin and Jill McKenna Reed “A single bee’s life’s work amounts to a quarter teaspoon of finished honey,” writes Craig Goodworth in his prose-poem “The Hive.” “The Bulgarian army, having run short of medical supplies, dressed wounds with …