Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Digging things up...

Hummingbird

Looking from this
                          fusion-filled window pane
               your breath mixes the glass with warm.

Standing just over my shoulder
                          you watch me, the hummingbird
                straying to christen us with sight.

For a stillness, the moment surrenders
                          almost every subtle day
                 spent together, each white, uneasy night.

And looking at the hummingbird's eyes
                            like pins on a red cushion
                  pricks my sensibility to light and touch.

When your hand reached out too late
                             to touch my shoulder, all
                   I could think of was the unthinking flight
                             that disappeared from the window.

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