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Ivy Alvarez

Honey gatherers


each bee burrows in
saying petal,
            petal, fur, fur

tongues and throats alive with sugar
each mouth pillows around the juice
           and sucks

midnight rings each body
of yellow silt
          (sun powder)

on their legs and hairs
glowing motes
          dust honey









after a shower
her hair carries
its own weather

Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). Her poetry is published in journals and anthologies worldwide and online, including In Posse Review, qarrtsiluni and MiPOesias. A MacDowell and Hawthornden Fellow, both the Australia Council for the Arts and the Welsh Academi awarded her grants to write poems for her second manuscript.

Website: www.ivyalvarez.com