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Nov/Dec 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 6 • Poetry |

Colony Collapse

By John Witte

The honeybees are vanishing from our lives so what
troubles us about this dwindling more than another

the snow leopard for example prowling the Himalayas
soundlessly on its huge paws seems less terrible

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