HUMMINGBIRD DREAMS

HUMMINGBIRD DREAMS

(For Marie Clementine at Sauble Beach)

 

Before long, the lullaby of the ebbtide

Would have lulled her, and the sundown
Swoon of the seagulls diving leeward
Becomes sights and sounds of another day.

Eventide catches her cuddling her doll,

Dancing on the sand all done for now:
“Goodnight, little stars, in the blanket sky,
Be good, be bright, be my light by-and-by.”
 

She wraps her ragdoll into a threadbare

Shawl left loose on a bare sunburnt back.
“Goodbye, sea, goodbye, sun, goodbye, all,
Let me sing our song until sleep shall call.”
 

She will not walk by moonlight, starlight

Being her appointed fireflies, like campfire
Fairies flitting from folded flowers to fire,
Quietly singing like little hummingbirds.

---Albert B. Casuga

August 21, 2013, Mississauga

 

 

 Photo by Adele Casuga