Monday, June 5, 2023

Too busy to stay




Too busy to stay

Not much past ten and already that sun’s high and hot 

but in one blessed corner honeysuckle’s dense

It’s overwhelmed the fence 

and small shade is thrown. 

Just enough for a chair and two cups, the coffee pot

and so I sit with the scent and the breath of air

as the black bees dance.


Then here’s a hummingbird hawkmoth 

too busy to stay for my camera 

his wings in a whirl,  in for nectar, out and onwards 

pinned instead in a memory 

of heat and stillness, dance and silence, blackcap song 

this Monday

magical. 

June 5th 2023, Hounoux 

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