
These last minute bees
do please me —
and the Asteraceae,
I see —
Oh, their autumn tease!
the winter’s breeze
they do appease.
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Photo by Andreas Berget. Poem ©2026 Jen Payne. If you like this poem, you’ll love my book SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS, on sale at my Etsy Shop.






