crushing sadness a monarch floats over the meadow
a mouse steals through blades of grass
a dragonfly dips through milkweed jungles
transcendently curling
rolling, darting, falling - full
from his insect world to mine
I ride upon its thorax
feeling its wings fuel
movement defying gravity
musculature beneath this thin exterior
defying belief
the ground comes close and then disappears
into a perfectly blue sky
contrail bisected as others
ride a metal thorax to
another world too
