Belly me slow in the rich primordial soup, cradle of our molecules. Let me wallow again, before we drain your swamp, before we pave it over and blast it to ash. Audouin's seagull Quick, lift off. Sweep me high over the coast and out, farther out. Don't land here.
Oil spills coat the beach, rocks, sea.
I cannot spread my wings glued with tar. Fly me from what we have done, fly me far. Imperial pheasant leopard Utah prairie dog Hide me in a hedgerow, badger. Dig me a tunnel through leaf mold and roots, under the trees that once defined our fields. My heart is bulldozed and plowed over.