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.