Truglio’s Preserve

You and I
Cool and dark
In the blind
Fixing our eyes
By the slatted sights
Glimpsing life
Just in front of us —

Swooping streaks of iridescence
Gleaming wings
Sprinting through green
Prismatic brilliance
Gorgeous and grave.

A symphony of calls
And cries in reply
Sounding our hearts
With explosions of wonder.

Drunk on lovely
Pressing our minds
To remember.
Forgetting all the while.

You, complicit,
Driving me to your home
Letting me sing
Roaring, half in
Half out
Your car’s window.
Wind in my eyes
Stinging my heart.
And me,

Unresisting
The joy.