Allison Morris #13 'After'

Each little hurt 

a bee's sting,

put aside as an anomaly,

the story smoothed out

then forgotten.

Then after

they come back in a swarm,

the little griefs,

and each sting is felt,

one after the other

long into the night.

The buzzing

is most welcome–

the little pains help 

to drown out the big one.