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Free Verse Poetry

Auditory Hungers

A biblical swarm in small gods
had formed ㅤ/an apple-drop spilling over June
has soiled July’s garden
–pungent-sweetㅤspotted brown
fermenting. The tree does not sulk for
the too-many blossoms wornㅤin Spring
not give thought to midsummer song
that hovers in buzz of wasps, hornets
and assorted beesㅤ/nor call for decorum
from those wrecks stumbling nectar-drunk.
They’ve comeㅤcaptive to a nature
by…