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Hummingbird
by Jane Alynn

She remembers how he entered the flower,
keen on the honeysuckle
that fluttered itself,
enamored of red—
his brazen body, hovering,
darting in and out,
interrupted, now and then,
by the humming
of a nectar-seeking rival,
equally as beautiful.
Then with the flush of spring
he turns a coppery back to her
ascends, slowly, to great heights
and dives on whistling wings
in a giddy twist toward her, tail on fire.
She'd like to get used to this.
But such displays are short-lived.
Given to being alone,
never alighting
or not for long,
ever a flitterer, he buzzes off
to the next flower
as she knew he would,
leaving her the nest
and a hunger
greater than her tiny body lets on.



Copyright 
© 2011 Jane Alynn
from Necessity of Flight (Cherry Grove, 2011)


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