issue 28 > poetry > adamo
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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee
by Melissa Adamo
Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking
—after Salvador Dali
She sleeps with pomegranate seeds—
bittersweet blood-red never
staining the bluest sea;
like her, they float above it.
Not even bayonets pierce
skin in suspension. A fixed threat
has no sting.
The bee's wings beat
the wind. His tongue searches for her.
Hind legs trap her naked flesh.