earth

Winds are like fainting
Ghosts, bees a stethoscope
Overwhelmed by sound
Of surging hearts.
Wounded in beauty
The earth offers handcuffs
Of gold to its guests.
Does the butterfly
Experience its biography
After death and a planet
Experience its rebirth
After extinction of a race.
Rain delivers sustenance
To sunflowers, earth's
Hours are delivered
To the
Sun. Wildfires run
Through forests. The
Timed beauty of waterfalls
Echoing, moonlight
Moving across the nightjars
Wing, beauty of nature's
Daughters has equal allure.