US and America

by Megan Apostol, Canyon Crest Academy '23

Men are bees

Hopping to and marring

All the dandelions

They please

Tying

Women,

The dandelions,

To the ground

Their roots digging far

Into their ancestors’ bones

From habit

As their wispy, frail daughters

Are blown away by

America,

A child,

Always

Blowing away the hopes

And running from the bees,

The men,

Only concern for themselves