seventy years a bachelor
known and regular,
his mother kept house to the end.
he put out word,
and her sob story got to him.
but it didn’t matter to his sisters
what she did or didn’t,
she was the usurper,
she had moved in on him;
housekeeper/gardener be damned.
facts were gathered:
stuffing the freezer with processed food,
mother’s silverware jumbled in a drawer,
Wedgewood in the […]
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I’ve been hanging out with poetryfresh, rosy-cheeked imagestrim, lilting phraseshigh-stepping across the page
fuck the pretty words
I want a poet with the gutsto visit the industrial part of townlate winter views that will make no tourist brochuregrimy snow banksrotting, leaking thin mudchip bags snagged against chain linkleaden skies, pothole roads
a poet pulling to the […]
Honeybees hum mutiny.
Listen! There are pandemic repercussions
in their slogans.
Where each hive was once a colony,
joyful, brimming idealism and bounty,
it is now modernized to factory,
a perfect assembly line.
The pollen of discontent sifts ever thicker
clouds their sense of purpose,
as workers grow sticky with longing
for the quiet universe of blossoms
that existed long before
the language of production quotas.
The drones […]
Honey, each spoonful
a liquid moment of summer,
556 bees drone through
their six week life span
to create one pound of honey.
Bees splatter the windshield
as I race north on this
slash of highway
twinned now to let us
hurry by ever faster.
My mind hums bee stories.
I notice hives hunkered
all over the harvest landscape
- along the soft bend
of the Smoky River,
tucked beside […]
