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Bees

by Aileen Fisher

Aileen Fisher

There wouldn't be sunflowers
Wouldn't be peas.
Wouldn't be apples
On apple trees,
If it weren't for fuzzy old.
Buzzy old bees
Dusting pollen
From off their kees.




Quotes of the Day

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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    In Celebration Of My Uterus
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