The Bee and the Lemon Tree
like a lover
the bee visits the tree
every day
on the window ledge
the little tree
is sky goddess
the breeze speaks
to the bee-wasp
love circles in the air
the hider
in the lemon leaves
a thought
hums a tune
scent dances
over the kitchen
Tony D’Arpino is an American poet based in Bristol. He is the author of four poetry collections and three pamphlets. His most recent collection is Sky Tree Sky (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), a sequence of poems based on the journals of the Scottish botanist David Douglas. His poems can be found in the Evergreen Review, the Winter Anthology, London Grip, Blackbox Manifold, and Elsewhere Literary Review.