Honeybee: a story of letting go, by LGBT poet Trista Mateer

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You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have

poems written about them. It's not something they say. It's

something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the

way they look walking away from you.

Honeybee is an honest take on walking away and still feeling

like you were walked away from. It's about cutting love

loose like a kite string and praying the wind has the decency

to carry it away from you. It's an ode to the back and forth,

the process of letting something go but not knowing where

to put it down. Honeybee is putting it down. It's small town

girls and plane tickets, a taste of tenderness and honey, the

bandage on the bee sting. It's a reminder that you are not

defined by the people you walk away from or the people

who walk away from you.

Consider Honeybee a memoir in verse, or at the very least,

a story written by one of today's most confessional poets.

Author Bio

Trista Mateer is a poet from outside of Baltimore. Known for her eponymous blog, she is also the author of four full length collections of poetry, and won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2015 with The Dogs I Have Kissed. She is currently working as a freelance editor but still manages to spend most of her time Googling cheap air fare and writing poetry about things that don't matter anymore.