Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Americana, Earth

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Sandstone walls reach into stars at twilight 
to pull out the weaver, frail
elegant
she breathes out
for Zinnias to open
giant wine blooms
a flutter of wings, delicate
lands
the whip of its antennae, baton
explode
dozens of monarch dance, phantom hearts
kissing her inner sanctum
to spill
spills
into sprinting leopards
blur
droplets of water, fall
from her eyes
deep
into soil
paws sunk, scents of wild
drift up
to pause
at the water’s edge, statues
gazing at you,
the wildfire searing
our weaver’s
bones