Red Quinceanera Dresses Ode to an Endangered Species

Ode to an Endangered Species
by Laurence Overmire.

Not Will you leave us here too long
We Have not Paid Attention
to squander the best of the world
a pity we do Not Understand

ourselves no more you fly in the wind no more the buoyant
ripples
on a pristine pool
the splash of color
in a worm-tore land
no more
the survivor's sad lament
But No weeping Will There Be When
your perfect, singular form
Vanishes
the muted salting of a Wounded Earth
And All That Is and All That

will ever WAS in Some Way Be Diminished

for tUnnoticed loss
Though I Will Be Recognized


in the stillness of eternal night. -------------------------------------------------
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Report from x-star 10.
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