June in December

by

Anne Yanchyshyn

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clover fields sweet-smelling
honey bees buzzing collecting their honey and
beelining home a purposeful life
sweet is their honey smelling of clover
distant clover fields sweet reflect on the mind
honey for toast and honey for muffins and
honey for kutia each Christmas Eve
kutia - a slavic dish - manna from heaven
wheat simmered to tenderness
ground poppy seeds grey
flavor fragments of vanilla, nuts, cherries blended in and
chilled to perfection, to match winter's chill
kutia sweetened with honey smelling of clover
summer echoes in winter that nourish me still

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