Hummingbirds sporting shiny
magenta feathered heads
collect nectar from 'sticky monkey,'
little trumpet flowers
the color of papaya, chopped into an exotic salsa,
with leaves like tattoo stickers.

A field of cacti,
not native to these parts,
offer their prickly fruit,
with holes the size of marbles
pecked through.

These are dangerous plates
to steal from,
unless hunger is winged
and aquiline.

Desires' prayer
is made palpable
by thorny beauty,
the illusion being
that only birds
have dominion
over spring -
as if it would never come again!

In August,
the pink flowered 'naked lady'
will replace the ivory calla lily
of March.