
Daydream 2012 by Drea
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THE HUMMINGBIRDS
BY MARY OLIVER
In this book
there are many hummingbirds~
the blue-throated, the bumblebee, the calliope,
the cinnamon, the lucifer, and of coarse
the ruby-throated.
Imagine!
Well, that’s all you can do.
For they’re swift as the wind
and they fly, not across the pages but,
like many shy and otherworldly things,
between them.
I know you’ll keep looking now that I’ve told you.
I’m hungry to see them too, but I can’t
hold them back even for a moment, they’re
busy, as all things are, with their own lives.
So all I can do is let you know
they’re here somewhere.
All I can do is tell you
by putting my own hunger on the page.
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
e.e. cummings, Poems, 1923-1954