Delivery

.…with Aiks
             observing
across                     a distance

a vehicle           
       coming slowly

The vehicle stops                         
by a culvert       nearby
and men get out                 
retrieving two bodies                                                   
from the trunk and                      
dumping
                                                them over the side

They roll lightly down               
the bare slope                   
into a dry arroyo

changing as they turn
               into two young giraffes

a larger           
and a smaller                 

Standing up they look                    
                                  curiously
at Pahn and Aiks

healthy

a girl
and a boy—    

Eeunks                                                        

and Daphnis