Springtime Rivals

the birds and the bees...

Springtime Rivals

by the starflower
a hummingbird
hovers in humorless iridescence
sucking the sweet nectar
with mathematical precision
infinity caught in its wings
feathers like fish scales
a fortissimo of color

caught in the crossbreeze
the bumblebee tumbles by
with an angry buzz
a jealous blunderbuss
trapped in an over-heated body
it knows
yellow and black don't go together
the horizontal stripes make it look fat