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#Human | #Primrose

by Gretchen Heffernan

The following is an endangered word

#Primrose

Scent, like a sea

shuttles the bees

in tapping fleets

against my window

where the roses, even

with their thorns, grow

independently beautiful, perhaps

more for the thorn than the petal exquisite

like sorrow with a laugh in it –

The bees are dying,

but not without our flowers.

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Puncture

by Gretchen Heffernan

The unsaid

like net the air

fell over us.

We are careful

with our words,

those sharp arrows

we can’t call back.