is to be watching TV, drinking

a Bud Light and yaking on and on

your cell during commercials.

Take a walk with friends while

you all text other people.

But, time is required

to watch

Rivoli’s green/bronze-throated hummingbird sip

nectar from red blossoms

pass to red blossom and flit

next and next and next.

On twilight walk

a shed cicada skin clings

to plant.

A large insect,

transparent wings & two inch long slender tailpiece

settles on maple tree bark–

a parasitic giant ichneumon wasp–

My day is complete.