butterfly swarmsong for humans

butterfly swarmsong for human(s)

{{don't think of it as one voice}}

                                             {{more sibiliant, sussurating

                              a way the air moves from our wings}}

               {{"voice of earth" a speciesist projection}}

{{what strange voicemath from a species who thinks

each one of them is separate}}

                              {{iwe pray for you(all)(each)(all) at times

               while slirpslipgiddying 

                                             on the mothertrees}}

                                             {{this prayer}}

                              {{may you feel the sweet embrace (nectar bellied from

               so many flowerbeings) withoutquestion of your belonging

                              amongst so many sistren wingeds}}

                                             {{embedded in the great mosaic, the tender

                              touch of trunk to leg and hand}}{{the whisper of jubilant

                                             feather bodies warmfluttering as the waterair comes}}

                              {{feeling certain of your direction as youtheyall fly in 

               ancient grooves to eldergroves, 

                                                            knowing with ancestral certainty

                              this is the way to peace,}} {{this is the way

togetherness. to neverbelost, always clear, lifted, companioned

               gentled and provisioned by starbursts of sweet

                              delight, to flit-arc trajectories of wholeness: this}}{{is the 

                                             way, calliopesong of sunrise, 

                                                            of moon}}{[this is the way, peace}}

                                                                           {{this is the way home}}