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Swimming

Saving a drowning honeybee

With a dried up leaf

At the edge of the pool

While my little cousin cries

“It’s gonna sting me!”

And gets out of the water.

I placed it gently on the cement

watched it flutter its wings

And wipe the water from its face.

It tried to fly away, enfeebled,

Falling right back into the water.

I quickly leafed him up again.

Poor little guy. Where’s all his friends?

I rushed him over to a shady spot

By the fence, under an elderberry.

At least he can’t drown himself again,

I think, as I walk back to the pool,

Wondering if I could have done more.

“Okay, the bee is gone now,” I say,

“Are you ready?” She says, “ready,”

So I toss her into the deep end again.

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