the way a hummingbird feeds, drinks, eats
is neither hurried nor slowed, it is simply
itself taking in nutrient in amount in
interval bent neck/smooth back of head,
straightened head, repeat, several times
in its manner, at its table, and
then to perch, or up above to hidden
or unconcealed branch above
in hackberry which it does
not disdain, and again to above
somewhere perhaps a thimble nest
is in-set; while another humming-
bird feeds, drinks, eats; it is
neither hurried nor is it slowed,
it is its time, not heron, time,
it is time of flutter, again
appears these moments ———— the hand
of infant suspended mid air
for a moment unimaginably long
the air still imagined as a globe of
amniotic fluid