Do you remember when spring sang
with monarchs, bees and peeping frogs
Sweet primrose and wild orchids
accompanied country car rides?
Yesterday’s drive
I saw one single stalk of milkweed
with two bright orange tinies
I stopped to say Hello, hopeful
they Survive
People are impossible to permeate
a sense for animals’ innate nature.
When we try, we look like crazies.
I once tasted my dog’s chew bone.
What’s insane is the astronomical
Endangered rate of animals, resources,
the Earth.
Death will descend its indecency on us
Anytime soon if we don’t move.
It starts small with one or two species
The interruption of life’s cycle spirals
People engorge on the latest dramas
If only threatened animals went viral
Midwestern Nature Moments 
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