Poems of the Week

Frequent Flyers

by Neil Doherty

“Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils
and move between flowers.”
The New York Times

We’re nibbling on the pollen and we’re sipping on the nectar,
The hummingbird is lingering in iridescent flight.
But the pollen’s always sweeter in another floral sector,
So we book a nasal passage, and it doesn’t cost a mite.