the bends

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the coral summer

koan’t

lives depend not on

keeping summer in but on

showing winter out

heyfever

pinched spheres and bagels

bee’s feet and gametes

dimpled coffee beans and dots

three-cornered pirate seed

forget-me-not shamrocks

marmalade hoverflies and spiderlings

asthmatic hummingbirds

and simple summer swings

blamed on the ragweed

and the fever it brings