Thursday, September 03, 2009

The Hummingbird

Is this the same one

clinging to

the hanging planter

preening, with

his wings at rest?


Yesterday

the same pose

the same spot

a meter away

from the

feeder sparkling

like cranberry juice

in the sun.


He waits

while a sparrow

pecks at the red

and yellow

plastic,

and finds nothing

worth her trouble.


His turn comes

as she flies away.



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