Julie Larios has had work
published in such magazines as The Atlantic, The Georgia
Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, and
ZYZZYVA, and online at Swink, Octopus, and
McSweeney's. Her third children's book,
Yellow Elephant, has just been released
by Harcourt Books.
What Bee Did
Bee not only buzzed.
When swatted at, Bee deviled,
Bee smirched. And when fuddled,
like many of us, Bee labored, Bee reaved.
He behaved as well as any Bee can have.
Bee never lied. Bee never lated.
And despite the fact Bee took, Bee also stowed.
In love, Bee seiged. Bee seeched.
Bee moaned, Bee sighed himself,
Bee gat with his Beloved.
And because Bee tokened summer
(the one season we all, like Bee, must lieve)
Bee also dazzled.
