Moonbird

 

Photo by Chuck Homler.

Your life is made of distant springs and falls,

a straight route is not what you own,

for hurricanes and storms divert your path to new horizons.

Will you find horseshoe crab, mussels, clams on the stopovers?

Food awaits you

 if the shores are not ravaged by human greed.

Your resilience is written in B95's ordeal,

a mosaic of adventures ingrained in his own cells.

The threads of your trips assemble

the places of Mother Earth connected through their roles.

Nothing is detached in the collective harmony of souls.

Red knot shorebird, peaceful messenger,

icon of strength without rage,

your story is a universal flight of awareness 

waiting to be heard.

To learn about this issue I invite you to read this article published by NPR recently:

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1180761446/coastal-biomedical-labs-are-bleeding-more-horseshoe-crabs-with-little-accountabi