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Pamela Starr lives in Massachusetts and has worked as an editor, technical writer, and  project manager.  She is presently in the graduate program in English at University of Massachusetts in Boston and has published previously in Negative Capability and Ballard Street Poetry Journal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pamela Starr

 

No way to save them,

the beekeeper said.

They had settled inside the wall.

They were building their hive.

 

He drilled holes in the basement

dry wall and ceiling,

inserted a syringe,

and sprayed the powder.

 

The poison worked quickly.

The buzzing stopped.

Dead bees

darkened the basement floor.

 

We vacuumed them up,

threw them out

with the trash.

But we still see them

 

fifteen years later,

dead bodies falling 

from the holes

we haven’t plugged yet.

 

 

Invasion