Do you remember
collecting honey from the honey
suckle flowers?
They grew in tangled vines
on fences. They secreted sweetness.
To find the bead of amber was
microscopic, dissection:
a severed pinch of the seam, where
yellow powder petals merge,
and then a pull—
the thickest string
like candlewick. Honey
a hole through which light
shines. In a jar, we piled
each spot of sweet seeping into
the spot of sweet before.
Like holding a breath
our jar grew full.
Sweetness in accumulation:
the honey lit.