Humming-Bird
Humming-Birdby D.H. LawrenceI can imagine, in some otherworldPrimeval-dumb, far backIn that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,Humming-birds raced down the avenues.Before anything had a soul,While life was a heave of matter, half inanimate,This little bit chipped off in brillianceAnd went whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems.I believe there were no flowers then,In the world where the humming-bird…