Dancing like a gypsy across the
sapphire tile of a sunny afternoon,
a honey bee found me dining with
friends on the terrace of a mountain
café and delivered her message
not once, but twice, hovering less
than an inch from my eyelids, nose,
mouth, caressing my neck with the
whir of her wings, while Carl coached,
"Stay still, and she'll fly away," but
she didn't, for broken connections
must be mended; and after the earth
had plucked my attention like the
trembled petals of a flower, Tom
reached beneath the devout napkin
of stillness to touch my hand,
signaling the bee's departure, and
he said, "You can breathe now."
BIO: Laura Stamps is an award-winning poet and novelist.
Over five hundred of her poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews
have appeared in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and
broadsides, including the Louisiana Review, Ibbetson Update, Big
City Lit, Poesy Magazine, American Writing, Fullosia Press, and
Lummox Journal. She is the author of more than twenty-five
books of poetry and prose. Her poetry chapbook Cat Daze was
a Finalist in the 2004 Plan B Press Chapbook Competition, and her fiction
chapbook White Porches was a Semi-Finalist in the 2004
Winnow Press Chapbook Award in Fiction Competition. Her chapbook In
the Garden was a Top-Finalist in the 2004 Blue Light Press Poetry
Prize and Chapbook Competition and was recently published by The Moon.
Two of her poems are included in the celebrity anthology Open My
Eyes, Open My Soul (2003, McGraw-Hill Books). More information
about books by Laura Stamps can be found at
www.kittyfeatherpress.blogspot.com.
Email:
laurastamps@mindspring.com
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by Laura Stamps