Migration

 An entire species of beast forms one dark cloud

Storming on piquant hooves across the prairie (fallow) plain

Heaving against/breathing earthen breast;

Echoes of the monarch’s—

A wisdom in the wings

Sings meconium into venation structure

Fluctuating with a sensitivity

To conditions.

Nothing more than

An interest:

(she heard

(inner rest)

…at the frequency which these

(alas) open rhythmic-

the same blink and gentle gesture,

inviting validation

:down to those whose song of brine and breach swims northward

:flirting with birds above airily carried across the mesquite arenas

by drunken flap and mishap,

and only after

climbing clouds, stumbling over secret currents,

the light—

:on grey mock muddle,

huddle between the pages of

blue eucalyptus notes

to lay a cheek against a stem—

(nod or bow)

gratitude,

:in keeping,

with

those who dare to cool

a flushed face

against the spine of a lover.

…

Fin rise,

Ache from the tightened chest,

And migrate when the sunlit curiosity

Of compassion cannot keep quiet.