i like books for dinner

I like heliconia for dinner–
so do forest hummingbirds

This lobster-claw imitates Strelitzia
with non-woody petioles often longer than its leaf

Heli’s homeys are bananas– Canna also shares aperitifs
before the Rufous-breasted Hermit
can come to have its feast

Heliconia, I’d invite you
to next weeks dinner party
But I think you’d rather kick it
alone in the tropics
of West Indies
(You oblong clumpy tree)