Wednesday, June 18, 2025

DEMOTION

And here 
I think I am
all alone—

think I am
the subject 
of this poem—

when a trio of round bees 
lands, keen 
but conscientiously 

to steal
from the rough
swirls of clover where I sit

those leading-man kisses, 
which go on
long enough 

to make me feel 
invisible—yet more 
than a little embarrassed. .