Winged utility, whittled
Feckless mouth, gut.

Emerald wings shimmer
Power skyward summer’s swarm.

Boiling-breath-blanket
Bodies-born-to-breed.

Hours grown late,
Frenzied day’s
Passage cradle-to-grave.

Conjoined dance, cumulus
Tassel-tossed success!

Green-gleaned sortie
Collapsed under dying sun
Eggs – wet sac splash
Water parlors —
Some fatten trout, some slip, survive.

Mothers, fathers fall —
Anonymous —
Delicate feast for fish, fowl
Orphaned nymphs sleep ‘neath
River’s occlusion, fated Cotillion
Two summers —
Til verdant death returns.