Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (New Directions Paperbook)

Untimely Meditations

CHAPTER 1

Time is money. Money is time.

So, I keep seven o’clock in the

bank and gain interest in the

hour of God. I’m saving to buy

my freedom. God grant me wings.

I’m too fly not to fly. Eye sore

to look at humans without wings.

So, I soar. And find tickle in the

feather of my wings. Flying

hysterically over land. Numerically,

I am s... See more