~~The Humming-Bird~~
I can imagine, in some otherworld
Primeval-dumb, far back
In that most awful stillness,
that only gasped and hummed,
Humming-birds raced down the avenues.
Before anything had a soul,
While life was a heave of matter, half inanimate,
This little bit chipped off in brilliance
And went whizzing through the slow,
vast, succulent stems.
I believe there were no flowers then,
In the world where the humming-bird
flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable
veins with his long beak.
Probably he was big
As mosses, and little lizards,
they say, were once big.
Probably he was a jabbing,
terrifying monster.
We look at him through the wrong end
of the telescope of Time,
Luckily for us.
~D.H. Lawrence~~
little creatures. I prefer to believe them to be as we
see them today; graceful, elegant little creatures
flittering from flower to flower.
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