Poetry

Rising

Bright-Morning
Oola Breen-Ryan

Bright-Morning
Bright Morning

I gofor a walk today.The world is alive—birds swooping and singing like phoenixes,red, yellow, orange dahlias,their petals burstingas if they think that they are fireballs.We seea dead bumblebee on the sidewalk.I bury it,my cold hands on its delicate body.Maybe ittoowill rise from the ashes.

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