Written While Sitting in My Car During a Rain Shower as I Watched Traffic on Interstate 90

Sherman Alexie’s Substack Audio

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A poem

Sep 30, 2021

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Did you know that 90% of the world’s bees
Are solitary? They live hive-less.

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I was stunned to learn this. Those hermit-monks—
Winged and many-eyed—worship

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In solitude. What is their theology?
Are they risen or fallen? I’ve decide to believe

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Their churches are the flora
And their gods are the pollen.