Poet Jeffery Beam
Poems

Sweet Fennel

Ah, here in the
tall grasses
Foeniculum umbels
of green & yellow.

Rubbing my bare chest
with sweetness &
soft fern,
the tongue swooning.
Profound
unisons.

From Visions of Dame Kind, 1995, The Jargon Society.

© 2001, Jeffery Beam
Email: jeffbeam@email.unc.edu
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Last updated: Friday, April 27, 2001