The Flower Kissers
        after Beija-flores, Portuguese for "hummingbirds"

Agents of creation
disturb the dust
of vegetable desire.
Their multiplying thirst

makes possible more blossoms,
a world of flowering
that as they drink pours forth
from their devouring.

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from Mudança
Dos Madres Press
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