Morning

 

 

We are eating honey

by the spoonful

 

the bees outside

watching us

 

all of them male

all of them mothers

 

isn’t it weird

or maybe strange

 

how what we fear is

never in the exact spot

 

we fear it from

 

 

 

Dalton Day is an editor of FreezeRay Poetry & the author of the collection Supernova Factory. His work has been featured in Banango Street, The Good Men Project, and Heavy Feather Review. He can be found at myshoesuntied.tumblr.com, and on Twitter @lilghosthands. He thinks everything is cute and won’t stop crying about it.