Jennifer Poteet

In the Garden

she took my hand
beneath the bees and buzz of wine
and the absence of winter.
I lay my mouth against her neck
and began to love her
on the cool grass.
Honeysuckle
above,
below
and in her,
I inhaled
and went under,
a gardener
sublimely puttering
without any tools.
 

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