Day 36 (Keeping Time with Rain Drops)
The bees drink
the sugar water
you left for them
in the feeder
by the hyacinths,
not knowing you
can never fill
it again.
Blood of
strawberries
in the jar
of marmalade
you made for me
last year. Eating
it would be
a sacrilege.
I drink
and drink
from the deep
well you dug,
still thirsting.
What if water
is God, and
God is water.
What if
I never see
you again?
Laura Hanna will graduate from Auburn University with a MA in English in the spring of 2015. She is published in several literary magazines and is the founding editor of These Fragile Lilacs Poetry Journal.
Day 36 by Laura Hanna is a post from: Straylight Literary Magazine