A hummingbird, ornamented with emerald and ruby plumage, greets me. From the feeder, a tinsel-thin beak extracts sugar water. I, too, drink— orange juice, slowly—while those wings blur. Hovering by a string of Christmas lights, the hummingbird examines green, red, green, red. Then he glides into the holy future. I’m left wingless.
Anabella Schofield is a poet and children's book author from California. She loves to craft wonder-filled works, especially in collaboration with her twin sister.