Entomology

Entomology is now out from Happenstance. You can buy it here.  One of the poems is featured here and you can also hear me read a couple of the poems  in this youtube video - from Literature Northwest. 

Microglossum stellatarum

Hummingbird Hawkmoth

For four hours at least we think we’ve seen

a hummingbird. It hangs by a thrum

of wings above the loaded stamens

of the bougainvillea that clings

to the warmed stone of his mountain villa –

a continent or two away from home.

In Manchester I thumb through the guide

and find a picture of a moth that hovering,

hums and dips its curved proboscis in the neck

of purple flowers. I text him. He doubts,

until he’s googled it himself, inspected

pictures of its ochre wings and silver throat,

its brindled belly fur and bright false eye 
– while the moth is graces another sky.