The Summer of BSSZ
I’d tilt myself and roll to each side on the dirt, offering the bees new areas of my body.
discussed us
MegachilidaePerdita minima
impressive knowledge
narrative
solitary beeMe, me, me!
Echinacea pallida .
Perdita Liatris spicataAndrena Rudbeckia hirta
Bombus impatiensColletes inaequalisternarius
Agapostemon
Agapostemon
Agapostemon
Agapostemon
Lord of the Flies
Agapostemon
go on, take, plunder
That’s impressive
Rudbeckia maxima
HylaeusPtiloglossaColletes
feel
force
dying
bzzzz
does
Food, a dead woman.
The mothers? Their pedicures scratching, avenging the water polo?
Marta Balcewicz's writing appears in Tin House online, Catapult, Washington Square Review, and other places. Her novel BIG SHADOW will be published by Book*hug Press in May 2023. Her IG is @wiczcraft. More at http://martabalcewicz.com.
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