Honeybee: Poems
Aug 2025 · Central Avenue Publishing
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Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in this emotional collection of sapphic poetry.
"I still remember you / as a little girl / who overwaters plants / because she doesn't know / when to stop giving."
Mateer's Honeybee is part poetic memoir and part manual for letting go. Each poem, bittersweet on its own, weaves together to tell a heart-wrenching tale about heartbreak and identity. Following an imperfect love story between best friends all the way to its messy end, this collection is a reminder that you are not defined by the people you walk away from or the people who walk away from you.
"It would be a shame / to look back on this / and (out of bitterness) / not call it love."
"I still remember you / as a little girl / who overwaters plants / because she doesn't know / when to stop giving."
Mateer's Honeybee is part poetic memoir and part manual for letting go. Each poem, bittersweet on its own, weaves together to tell a heart-wrenching tale about heartbreak and identity. Following an imperfect love story between best friends all the way to its messy end, this collection is a reminder that you are not defined by the people you walk away from or the people who walk away from you.
"It would be a shame / to look back on this / and (out of bitterness) / not call it love."
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About the author
Trista Mateer is a visual artist, poet, writer and freelance editor who began putting words on paper at twelve and never found a good enough reason to stop. Known for her eponymous blog, she is now the author of multiple poetry collections, including When The Stars Wrote Back (2020), Aphrodite Made Me Do It (2019), Honeybee (2018), and The Dogs I Have Kissed (2015) which won a Goodreads Choice Award the year of its release.She currently lives in a house by the sea in New Jersey; and when sheís not wrangling her cat, Honeybun, she stares out at the water and waits for the words to wash ashore.You can keep up with her @tristamateer on Instagram and Twitter and visit her website at tristamateer.com
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