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commenbees, pollen-sifters

You can find me in the fields, catching water bugs, and small red beetles. You will find me in the grass, sifting through all of the things I have left. sifting through dollops of honey and gin sifting through well-rusted lockets and tins o’er high hills comes sweet-smelling winds carrying over pollens from yore, drifting from to city to city once more... twenty years later i sit in my yard with my cats and my children in the heart of new york, new york a faint, yet audible buzzing awakes me from my nap, and as i wake i see a flow‘r on my lap. how could this be? how could this happen? i’m surrounded by non-ornamental hedge plants! i look to the sky and see a faint glisten, for i've seen it now as i’ve seen it before i breathe in the sweet smell of my youth from yore, drifting from city to city once more.
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rileyminteer
22 / CA, USA
Published
Aug 26, 2019
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-riley minteer

“commenbees, pollen-sifters”

(from “standing in two gardens”)

Monday, August 26, 2019

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