My Midsummer Bees
Poetry
Even in the city you’ll find flowers,
you tiny motor of wings
drunkenly transporting
heaping bundles
of dizzy plunder
to scatter over gold-faceted hives,
transformed into feasts
for tiny grubs brooding
until we can touch the sky
and taste our own
blooming.
Faith Allington is a writer, gardener and lover of mystery parties who resides in Seattle. Her work is forthcoming or has previously appeared in various literary journals, including Crow & Cross Keys, The Fantastic Other, The Quarter(ly), Bowery Gothic and FERAL.