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Howie Good
Dead Bees Sting, Too
It feels more like summer, everyone says,
though only the naturalizing daffodils
have bloomed as I drag the garbage cans
around back, and then you're there,
a peculiar, black-striped pebble of gold plush
that I nudge with the toe of my shoe,
half-suspecting some kind of ruse,
but the rebels in burlap masks have struck,
and the royal escort has fled,
and the gilded coach lies overturned
on a remote road through the dark forest.
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