{ the sweetest bee makes the thickest honey. }





Before
by Willow Rossetti-Johnson

No thank you, she should have said preemptively
in case a situation arose in which there was any question

An oscillation of fate, he says, partially disregarding timing
and the other portion pure admiration

No, she says, because of the juxtaposition
of branches and wires, how simply separate

Until there is otherwise, inevitably
a compelling explosion

And, there is, no need to question the type
of wire or of branch unless necessary

In which case, she says, telephone and pine
like breath and fire