Hobble Creek Review
| Corey Mesler |
Hummingbird
I am not patient enough
to see the hummingbird.
His visit is so brief.
Just as you don’t under-
stand the quick hit of a
poem, nor its attraction
for things earthy and red.
I am not patient enough
to see the hummingbird.
His visit is so brief.
Just as you don’t under-
stand the quick hit of a
poem, nor its attraction
for things earthy and red.
COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and
anthologies. He has published four novels: Talk: A Novel in
Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The
Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010), and Following Richard
Brautigan (2010); 2 full length poetry collections: Some Identity
Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011). He has
also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose.
With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of
the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.
anthologies. He has published four novels: Talk: A Novel in
Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The
Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010), and Following Richard
Brautigan (2010); 2 full length poetry collections: Some Identity
Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011). He has
also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose.
With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of
the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.
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