The Hummingbird

From flower to flower goes the hummingbird, heart pounding, in search of anything sweet. This poet’s attention, meanwhile, hovers and darts toward ever-more attenuated spaces of enlivenment and connection in New York City and beyond, filching lyric possibilities from the shadows of indignity and dread. On riverbanks and in dive bars, hospices and deserted libraries, or “in my coffi...