Sketching the Rural Hours

Fields and woods,
the courtship of the hummingbirds.
       record the flight, the swoop, the dash
       the dive, the height.

Wait.
Watch.
Sketch.

Paint the portraits. Tiny bright bodies.
Feathered jewels sky by,
finding favor
in one another.

Wait.
Watch.
Sketch.

See the bits, the twigs and webs
        that make the nest.

Two days. Two tiny eggs.

Wait.
Watch.
Sketch.

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