I found this delightful Emily Dickinson poem at Romancing the Bee, a site dedicated to personal bee-keeping, cottage gardening and cooking with (you guessed it) honey. I’d never read it before. Now I’m a fan. Without further ado, “Bee! I’m Expecting You!” Alys
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Was saying Yesterday
To Somebody you know
That you were due —
The Frogs got Home last Week —
Are settled, and at work —
Birds, mostly back —
The Clover warm and thick —
You’ll get my Letter by
The seventeenth; Reply
Or better, be with me —
Yours, Fly.
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Gardening Nirvana 
Emily’s of my favorite poets. 🙂
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Nice. Did you already know this poem, then? I love it.
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New for me too, lovd it, thanks Alys. Sounds like shorthand enjoyed by two old friends. The letters brief, familiar and sentimental. No need to be wordy, they know each other too well. 😀
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Beautifully said, Boomdee: ‘shorthand by two old friends.’
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