Dying: After Denise Levertov's "Living"

Photograph by Paul Hsu

The wind in the tree

so close to death

it comes and goes

each hour the final hour.

A hummingbird's

heartbeat races

at breakneck speed

ten times the rate

of human lives, taking

dives at sixty miles

an hour, visiting

a thousand flowers

a day. I walk on

each second the final second.

by Paul Hsu 4-6-15

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