Shannon Ongaro: Glendive

flying time over

Makoshika

there are dinosaurs

here

buried in rocks

under trees

the work of storms

above and

storms below

Cessna 172 and our pilot Craig

(aluminum rails and

steel pins)

I know these mechanisms

running my fingers over

the holes and looking

for elongated circles

I think about other

rails- broken ones

in the sky above Glendive

I fly

and something else

flies through me

the evening sun

shines on our Yellowstone River

pink and gold

and black clouds

and Craig telling stories of a place he loves

Not Enough Night

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