suffocation
crocodile clouds give way
to elephants marching
slowly into the horizon
at times they’re suffocating
pulled down by gravity
& one hundred one kite flyers
catch & release is the game
unable to tame the wild
send them back with fire & fury
what comes around stays
for maybe an eternity
or until the next near extinction
february two thousand twenty-two
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