Honeybee
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.
Trista Mateer is an American writer and visual artist from Westminster, Maryland. She won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2015 for poetry with The Dogs I Have Kissed. Her collection Aphrodite Made Me Do It was also voted one of the best books of the year by Goodreads users in 2019.