Randi Ward
Swarm
Rain
and rising mist
when he shakes
bees
from their bustling
limb.
Casket
Sour smell of dying
flowers filling
the living
room--
close this evening.
Telling the Bees
The service is today.
They’re fighting
over the flowers.
Fly, fly away!
Randi Ward is a writer, translator, lyricist, and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of The American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize. Ward is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose work has appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, World Literature Today,Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vencil: Anthology of Contemporary Faroese Literature, and other publications. For more information, visit:www.randiward.com/about
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Rain
and rising mist
when he shakes
bees
from their bustling
limb.
Casket
Sour smell of dying
flowers filling
the living
room--
close this evening.
Telling the Bees
The service is today.
They’re fighting
over the flowers.
Fly, fly away!
Randi Ward is a writer, translator, lyricist, and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of The American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize. Ward is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose work has appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, World Literature Today,Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vencil: Anthology of Contemporary Faroese Literature, and other publications. For more information, visit:www.randiward.com/about
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