✨ We Find Honey Others Miss

reads the H&R Block sign ...

We Find Honey Others Miss

reads the H&R Block sign.
It’s April of course and I’m charmed
by this as I am by the scrawl of early lilacs

in the alley. Even when I realize
I’ve mistaken an M for an H, it’s a slip
neither Freud nor I mind, a mistake I’m

happy to have made.
Decades, really, of error and blunder
are how I’ve found honey

in the least likely places,
where bees had no business, and how,
eating it raw by the spoonful

or sucking it straight from the comb,
I’ve gone places I had no business going.
My dear

mistakes are how I found my life.

—Catherine Abbey Hodges

From In a Rind of Light, Stephen F. Austin State University Press, © 2020. Used by permission of the poet. Photo by micheile henderson, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.