HIVE (from The Lisa Sequence)

Lisa Montgomery, the first woman killed by the U.S. federal government since 1953, was executed under former President Trump.

Red roses blooming all at once
when she finds between herself and any door
a male, be him grandson or lawyer, any flinch of any him brings a springtime
terror of thorn and attar, shivering with adrenaline, a clawing
of petal-flesh, the past beneath it, the blood
un-forgetting, the body expressive as earth, pushing up what’s sown:
roses, overwhelmed in heat, drawing close the bee, its
pollinate, while the queen smiles ruthlessly inside her daggered hive, watching
workers enter and leave, the wind itself stung,
so the weak, wingless one.