Ruby-throated Hummingbirds – A Poem

If you build it, they will come or rather If you plant it, they will feed. Hummingbirds agree. Flitting from air to native scarlet sage petals; the same plants I carefully chose and tended and watered and weeded for this very moment. When a pair of emerald avians of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds flew through feisty feeding on their way to the coast and, eventually, across the Gulf.