Your hummingbird heart keeps panicked time;
a quick-step march of hollow beats that bruise
the arching breadth of your ribs

                    (ribs caged by cellophane layers
                    of capillaries and fever hot skin-
                    don't you worry that those bones will
                    someday burst into fresh air, make their mark on
                    the rigid landscape?)

It would escape if not for my weight
pressed down like stones;
my body locked between shivering limbs,
come in from January's cold to clutch at your fire.
You are only slow
When sleeping;
When your sugar water has run low.

I drilled a hole in your dish
And drained it away.