“Bees,” “Greenland” & “The Kitchen” by Francine Conley (poetry, ’14)

Three poems with audio by Francine Conley (poetry, ’14) appear in Tinderbox Poetry Journal:

Francine Conley (poetry, ’14)

 

Bees

For the Hive

Those were years I told one man after another sure,

I’d fuck a lug like you, why not.  I looked down the barrel

 

of each rifled gaze because I wanted less to be like a woman

who waits than a man who takes as he pleases, enters a bar,

 

surveys the perennial variety, chooses which one he’ll take

home.  No longing; no loneliness allowed: just action.

. . . continue reading here.

To read “Greenland,” click hereand to read “The Kitchen, click here.