Elvii and Two Hummingbirds
we had never met
two hummingbirds
on the inside of a star where
we were 6’ 3”
each
casting our light
when we could not be sure
either of us
existed
like the ends of a cow—the same cow—
to a cow
though we were almost endless
or like me and my great-grandson
born a Jetsons-distance away
a hummingbird
on the luminous verge
of beginning and end
two hummingbirds
on the inside of a star where
we were 6’ 3”
each
casting our light
when we could not be sure
either of us
existed
like the ends of a cow—the same cow—
to a cow
though we were almost endless
or like me and my great-grandson
born a Jetsons-distance away
a hummingbird
on the luminous verge
of beginning and end
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