Hummingbird
For Tess
Suppose I say summer,
write the word “hummingbird,”
put it in an envelope,
take it down the hill
to the box. When you open
my letter you will recall
those days and how much,
just how much I love you.
Raymond Carver
From All of Us: The Collected Poems
Beautiful!
Oh, I love this, so evocative and wonderful. I need to be reading more poems like this. Thanks for sharing it.
Hmmm….
What an odd, lovely little poem!
I used to love to write poetry when I was in school but have never really looked into reading it.
I wish poems with dedications came with little pics of the recipient. * grin *
Ooh! I never thought of that! “Tess” is the poet Tess Gallagher.