Flying to China

.The plane is full of red
pandas
                 fertility
                                       health bounty

flying
                            toward the western mountains 
                                the wife and mother’s
side of the bed

to return them
to their homeland

They crash
and settle
                             into Aiks’ chaos
on the cool
                                 mossy sheet with mottled
boulders
 
          knees
 
                    elbows

trying to straighten
the blankets   to assess
what is left    debating
the course to take

Pahn finds

Djuturna
Isolated
 
                                                       from the wreckage by a buffer

of cool   empty
air    starting to walk
away
                                   quietly in
to tranquility around her

the path
appears    to part
 
                  and focus
                                   clearing
like murk settling                                                 
in slow moving                     

river                                        

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