Poem
Linda France
Poem Without Bees
Poem Without Bees
Poem Without Bees
A sound like uzzflattens in a sleepy zzz.
Something’s missing
you can’t put your finger on:
lue-ell, uddleia, leeding heart.
Look at it like this:
lack and yellow.
Reakfast is toast,
unuttered,
sweetness squandered.
How soon reath stiffens –
wreath’s rictus.
© 2014, Linda France
Linda France
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1958)
Author of seven full collections of poetry and many pamphlets and collaborations, and editor of the influential Sixty Women Poets (Bloodaxe, 1993), Linda France is an expansive force in contemporary British poetry. Her work is finely-tuned and wide-ranging, encompassing a verse biography of the eighteenth-century Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a book of rengas, and poems about gardens, the past, an...
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Poem Without Bees
A sound like uzzflattens in a sleepy zzz.
Something’s missing
you can’t put your finger on:
lue-ell, uddleia, leeding heart.
Look at it like this:
lack and yellow.
Reakfast is toast,
unuttered,
sweetness squandered.
How soon reath stiffens –
wreath’s rictus.
Poem Without Bees
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