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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#1048737 added April 25, 2023 at 1:11am
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learning the bees and the birds
when Dad talked about bees,
it was in reference to honey
or stings or trivia about
masses of a hive held
within a home's walls.

and when he talked about birds,
it was the cardinal lighting
in brilliant reds on the fence, or
a wren peering from a tiny hole
inside a saguaro—he saw them
identifying them from their calls,
where I was blind and clueless.

so, when
I heard about the birds and the bees,
I was unsure of the shape
of the metaphor.

Prompt

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