As I always do this time of year, I’ve been spending many hours watching my namesake birds. We have at least 5 adult male hummingbirds now- it’s a bit difficult to keep tabs on them amid the flurry of activity with the juvies and females joining them in a virtual squeakfest around our feeders […]

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I’ve been recooperating from yet another hospital stay, so have been spending quite a bit of time watching our juvenile R.T. Hummingbirds from a bedroom window, where I have a great view of my hummingbird/butterfly garden. If I had to pick a ‘favorite’ bird, it would be a hummingbird.. for many reasons. […]

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The Moths
There’s a kind of white moth, I don’t know
what kind, that glimmers
by mid-May
in the forest, just
as the pink mocassin flowers
are rising.
If you notice anything,
it leads you to notice
more
and more.
And anyway
I was so full of energy.
I was always running around, looking
at this and that.
If I stopped
the pain
was unbearable.
If I stopped and thought, maybe
the world
can’t be […]

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