Sucking Dry Honey Poem by Erin Suurkoivu

a thousand restless fingers
pluck along my nerves
and crawl swarming bees
over my flesh
sucking dry honey
and I as a comb am empty
waiting on the waxing moon
to bring in the tide
exposed and littered
on the cracked seabed
lighting beeswax candles
impromptu runway lights
for those aeroplanes
who always fail to land
and wasted afternoons
fade into wasted nights
tossing to and fro
I sleep
under the cupboards instead