Hummingbird Haiku I

smallest and fastest

By Rob AngeliPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read

Fastest of heartbeats//:

Its sugar addictions pulse

Miniature wingspread.

Campaign for the Reality of Birds. Take to your plumes for our feathered friends and fiends alike, fit for the most lofty skies as well as the hottest of ovens.

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sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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