H e a r t   S o n s   &   H e a r t   D a u g h t e r s   of   A l l e n   G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m   H e a l t h   S p a :   R e p o r t   2 0 1 4 :   A r c h i v e s   E d i t i o n

 

 

ANTLER

 

 

Mother Hummingbird Thought

 

The hummingbird hovers momentarily

in the rusty hulk of a car

that plunged off the highway

into the deep canyon years ago

and no one knows about.

She perches on the skull of the driver

and thinks

perhaps one of these eyeholes

would be a safe place

for a nest.

 

 

[Originally published in NHS 1991, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs91/index.html#15.]