The Foreword to the new book “The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition.”
Hummingbird
May 1, 2019
This poem appears in the Spring 2019 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.
Hummingbird
at a tiny blossom.
Humpbacks off Big Sur.
Not to scale: this
human.
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