Monday, August 15, 2011

Hummingbird sentry

oh small one


here you sit

secretly, quietly




alert

























a sentry 
among giants

only to rise to a 
flurry of palpitations

the battle, swift
ferocious
and brief


you take guard again


lonely, solitary work
oh, protector of sweetness

rest
close your eyes
ever so briefly
in your bed
of greenness