summer

 the bee's legs twitched on the parched 

pavement where copperpod flowers 

were strewn like specks of the sun.

the sprinklers splashed and sprayed,

and hopeful water rushed in to rouse her.

but then the ants beneath her scampered,

and like a puppet abandoned by its master,

the bee laid profoundly still.

 


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