Kolbe Riney
Kolbe Riney is a queer poet and student based out of Tucson, Arizona. Her work appears in the West Trestle Review and Persona Magazine, and is forthcoming in Camas Magazine, Panoplyzine, and To Write Your Name.
Nectar
I reach
for my glass
of sugared plum
soda,
purple
as the color
of blue hour
over water.
A bee drifts
in lazy
steam spirals
towards the stem,
riding the lip
as I slowly take
a sip,
the way
my hand
might ride
the motion
of your throat
in a swallow.
She crawls deftly
towards the surface,
but falls
head over foot
over head over foot
into the drink.
Legends say
bees
are the messengers
of the gods,
so I plunge
my fork
into the juice
and lift her skywards,
and she flits away
with slivered glass
wings
blinking back
at me
like prisms.
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