then came bees the sizev cats- they
overtook the sky
2put a stop2 our, wherever it was we
were going?
they told us we’d failed 2 really see
our world,
dizzying us w/eyes like sharded glass.
they dove & purred, unruly w/ yellow,
nonpoisonous
if fearsome, aghast but all unwarring,
& w/ them hopes we’d been ignoring
were dipping also soaring
Debbie Benson’s recent poems appear (or are forthcoming) in Indiana Review, Passages North, Bennington Review, Ninth Letter, and The Penn Review. Past awards include the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, Vern Cowles Prize, an International Merit Award from Atlanta Review, inclusion in Best New Poets, and a “Best of the Net” nomination. She is a prior contributor at The New Verse News. She works as a clinical psychologist in NYC.