Diane Elayne Dees is the author of the chapbook, "Coronary…
The Bees And I was previously published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal
The bees
around my head
give me space
to cut spent blooms
away
Away
from time and thought
I take their rhythm for
my own, relax into the buzz
they sing
They sing
of work as sweet,
and timed to ancient clocks;
I may tell time just as bees do
some day
Some day
like an open bloom,
across my honeyed path
sweeter secrets may emerge, like
the bees.
Diane Elayne Dees is the author of the chapbook, "Coronary Truth" (Kelsay Books) and the forthcoming chapbook, "The Last Time I Saw You". Diane, who lives in Covington, Louisiana—just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans—also publishes Women Who Serve, a blog that delivers news and commentary on women’s professional tennis throughout the world. Her author blog is Diane Elayne Dees: Poet and Writer-at-Large.