And when there is sun,
you will feel better or worse
you will do what you must
you will feel sicker or poorer
or richer and perhaps in good health,
and the redbuds will bloom,
as a matter of course, 
in one night 
and you will breath deeply
when you see them 
and then remember
you are alone.

The first Rufous Hummingbirds
to arrive from the south
gerrymander their new districts,
excluding the resident Anna's
from every drop of nectar.