When you are dissolving a knot, sometimes
your brain must tell your body to get up
over and over. . .your body may not listen
again and again. . .the room complains
of disorder by flashing it in your eyes,
leaving you no choice but to close them.

The hummingbird is taken in
by the deception--its mate’s breast
rising and falling
rising and falling
in the exuberance
of decay.