Poet Jeffery Beam
Poems

Flowering Apricot

February's got
a pink butterfly,
Prunus mume, caught
in your hair.
What an exquisite
loneliness.
What a shook
eye I got.

From The Beautiful Tendons, manuscript.

© 2001, Jeffery Beam
Email: jeffbeam@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.unc.edu/~jeffbeam/poems/apricot.html
Last updated: Friday, April 27, 2001