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I want to hold your hand
in a meadow in August
just so you can see
the flowers that made me
into this kind of hopeful.
The kind that buzzes
before the bee comes—
the kind that moves
out of the way
for deer. Singing.
I won’t nudge you
into romance. I know
the flowers are shining
in my eyes like honey.
Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in Maine. She serves as assistant poetry editor for Gigantic Sequins and an editor for Newfound's Emerging Poets Chapbook Series. Her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press.