I am on the balcony before it begins. Achromatic darkness, the sky tangible, reaching back to my outstretched fingers, pressing on my face. A steady hum of cars, the clack and clangs of the train yard trill, chirrup, cheep and chur.
Archive for the ‘Hummingbirds’ Category
Again I write a poem about sunrise, birdsong and anthropomorphized trees
Posted in Birds, Hummingbirds, Longing, Love on January 14, 2023 | 2 Comments »
Winter Solstice
Posted in Hummingbirds, Love, Moon/moonlight, Wind, Winter on December 21, 2021 | 2 Comments »
He spoke of watching the hummingbird bring soft fuzz and leaves high in the sequoia in the front yard. He watched it turn around and form it with its vibrating tail feathers and tiny humming bottom, circling like a dog before settling in, readying it for its mate. He told of the days that came […]
El Colibrí de Gisela
Posted in Adam and Eve, Bible Story, Desert, Hummingbirds, Mortality on October 26, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
El colibrí de Gisela vino a la última flor de pasión en lo alto. En un lugar privado, escondido de la calle, este pequeño pedazo de desierto se ha transformado en un Edén. A veces verdeante, ahora es la temporada mortal. Las vides de uva, de árboles de limones amarillos, de nectarinas, las camas de […]
Toucans
Posted in Birds, Guanajuato, Hummingbirds, Memory, México, Music/Song on September 18, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Toucans landed on the field behind your house improbable, the things we think are beautiful Why the hummingbird, iridescent and almost impossible to track as it zooms and flits and chitters through the tree and not the giant black bus of the bee whose heft is long and wide, seeming to defy gravity, land on […]
Radiant
Posted in Healing, Hummingbirds, Romance, Youth on July 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
A hummingbird of a girl – iridescent and flittering fueled by youth and hope and that which buzzes alive in those lucky enough to fly dive hover dart in search of the 1000 flowers’ nectar to be lapped up in a day.