A third poem published today by Red Eft Review. My thanks to Corey Cook for accepting all 3 recent poems that I submitted. I love this poem coming out now in late April, since I just hung out our hummingbird feeders for the summer.

This August morning
hummingbirds are at the feeder—
impossible creations dipping
into the nectar.
I wonder at their flair for flying
backwards, their nests no bigger 
than a walnut shell, their weeklong 
journeys on whirligig wings following 
the flowers. It gives me peace, 
thinking of small, irridescent lives,
momentary and breathtaking.