I am waiting for you.
Where do you wait?
In Florida with retirees?
South along the Gulf of Mexico?
All the way home
to sunny Mexico?
Is anyone left there to call you huitzitzilin?
I am waiting for you.
Will you come?
To New England spring?
North to our garden?
I will grow you fresh flowers.
I will surprise you
with a new name.
I am waiting for you.
Will you come?
I will call you ariette.
Because you are a lively character.
You dart at each other endlessly:
a comic dialogue
among the flowers.
References:
"Ariette: Originally the French form of the Italian arietta, the word ariette came to signify a particular form of short aria, of lively character. The word is used in the descriptive title of French comic operas in the later 18th century, comédie mêlée d’ariettes, dialogue interspersed with songs."
"Some Ruby-throats do spend the winter along the U.S. Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida, and some along the southern Atlantic coastal regions. Other species travel south down the Rocky Mountain chain into Mexico and Central America. Some species never migrate, and stay year-round in their habitats in Central America."
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