Hummingbird

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Posted by admin to Paul Eluard, humingbird on 2008-03-04, 14:02:00

Turns without reflections
to the curves without smiles
of shadows with mustaches,
registers the murmurs of speed,
the minuscule terror,
searches under some cold cinders
for the smallest birds,
those which never close their wings,
resist the wind.

Paul Eluard, translated by Amy Levin