Tuesday, November 22, 2022

the beekeeper's daughter

i used to live
a floor below Sylvia.

she was a little troubled,
especially

with the men
in and out of her life,

but a fine poet.

beyond her age,
she was beautiful

and kind,
generous with her home

made pies, though,
quick to correct your

pronunciation
of any word she deemed

not right,
but my god,

all night at the typewriter,
Daddy this and Daddy that

pounded out
on her keyboard.

until the early morning
hours.

with frost on her foreign
windows,

she kept stinging herself
with his bees.

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