Blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsSpring 2014  Vol. 13  No. 1
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The Chickasaw Trees

the chickasaw
trees are full

of bees the
pretty white

panicles
everywhere

light
turn them

frantic
as they haul

their pollen
baskets

from star
to star

to fragrant
star this

industry
thrumming

in the hearts
of flatland

plums hums
in the lucky

air far
from where

war
goes on

and on and
here on

the sun-lit
prairie light

winds shift
and dusky

nouns are sung
from the trees

where an owl
frowns

in sleep
and later

comes
in the guise

of ghost
to say

he knows
that all

the people
in a world

without bees
are lost  end  


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