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The Bees And I

The Bees And I

Painting of a man sitting on a bench and talking to a beehive

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.