In my dreams I’m always hovering
before the evening primroses,
their centers of ruby gold and bent
stalks whispering praise to me.
It’s always prelude playing here:
bee edicts echoing down days
stung to silence under gauzy clouds,
slivered moons, and in steam
rising from pollen. My portly
body taxis in repose. I fall
in love. Each night I deeper fall,
my buzzing swarm swaddled
alike in dreams. We are fuzzy
monks deep in contemplation
on mountains of mere wind.
Our feet frizzle in prayer. Nectar
rolls in our mouths like honey
withheld. I am orotund rapture:
that is me to thee, dancing on nothing
substantial, swaying in my stripes on thick air.
Copyright © 2017 Charlene Fix. Used with permission of the author. This poem originally appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Fall 2017.