Swollen [Buzz]
April 26th, 2006
By Archived Story
The edge of my mind is a tethered bee
that flies around a pencil
on a mint-green line of floss.
If I was smart I wouldn’t touch it,
but my heart has thick red secrets,
and from time to time they bug me
and I have to write them down.
March 20, 2006, 1:41 am
Questions
1.What are the “thick red secrets”?
2. Who or what is the antagonist of this poem?
3. What is “it” in line four?
4. What is the form of the poem?
