[Poetry | Issue 10]

Maureen o’leary

The Seagulls Look Like Bees

The seagulls look like bees, don’t they?
Don’t they look like bees?

The hummingbirds have plenty
To eat with fuschia flowered gooseberry.

and i love you is how i feel about you
i love you

 She’s stealing cobwebs
She’s making a nest.

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About the author

Maureen O’Leary lives in California. Her poetry appears in Sycamore Review, Nightmare Magazine, Feral Poetry, and Sierra Nevada Review among other places. She is the author of physics of weight: collected poems through Bottlecap Press, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a graduate of Ashland MFA.