Written by Joanne Kennedy Frazer
to collect pollen
bees visit male flowers
then flit to female blossoms
to inject the pollinating grains
and hanky panky ensues
thusly are cucumbers
formed and born
BREAKING NEWS:
EPA OKS BEE-KILLING PESTICIDE.
when all the bees are gone
how will cucumber blooms make love?
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Joanne Kennedy Frazer is a retired peace and justice director and educator for faith-based organizations at state, diocesan and national levels. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, journals and e-zines, including several Old Mountain Press anthologies, Poetic Portions anthology, Soul-lit Journal of Spiritual Poetry, Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, Panoply Literary Zine, Snapdragon Journal, Whirlwind Magazine, Spank the Carp, Kakalak, Red Clay Review, Topical Poetry and New Verse News. Her second chapbook Seasonings (Kelsay Books) was published in spring 2023. Home is Durham, NC.