Hummingbird
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.