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 Contents | November 2002 More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. |
Hummingbird
by Sue Standing .....  Hear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)No matter how fast my heart, yours beats faster. What would ever make you stay? A rose named for Frédéric Mistral. The Arctic Queen Nectarine. Orchids in Malawi (over four hundred species). Kashmiri meadows, a perfume that almost hurts. Perhaps a miraculous shift —red or dress or attitude— would keep you hovering here more than a millisecond touch-and-go. No matter how fast my heart, yours beats faster.
Sue Standing directs the creative-writing program at Wheaton College and is the author of Amphibious Weather, Deception Pass, and Gravida. Her new collection of poems, False Horizon, will be published next spring. Copyright © 2002 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; November 2002; Hummingbird; Volume 290, No. 4; 96. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] | ||
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