Oversight

dearest, i wanted 
to thank you
for the picture.
don’t panic. i know
how frightful kindness is.
in my culture,
overtures are hereditary.
don't flag my beez.

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Stephanie Jean is the winner of the BOMB Poetry Contest 2020 Judged by Simone White. Her poems have appeared in the Journal of Poetics Research, [PANK], and The Southampton Review.