With hummingbirds beginning to arrive, here’s a hummingbird poem comparing them to…menstruation!
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On Hummingbirds and…Menstruation?!
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The Poetry of Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are simultaneously beautiful and terrifying, as D. H. Lawrence points out.
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I Must Arise and Go There
Monday Listening to the humming of our hummingbirds the other day, I thought of Yeats’s reference in “The Lake Isle of Inisfree” to linnet wings. I don’t think we have linnets in America and I can’t imagine that they make any sound at all, much less hummingbird buzzing. Still, Yeats conjures up images of feathery […]
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Hummingbirds and the Life Force
Monday Happiness is watching hummingbirds feed. The two that visit our feeders—which is to say, the one that feeds and the one that gets chased away—are resplendent in their shimmering colors, reminding me of the hummingbird in Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony. As the Laguna Pueblo author sees it, hummingbirds have a direct connection to the […]
A Little Bit Chipped Off in Brilliance
D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Hummingbird” works as a kind of trance, out of which we must be jolted lest we be swallowed up.
