I Will Stay

Bats spiral on slip streams

Slick spotted silver salmon leap cascades

 Monarch butterflies orange and black

 Fly south along the blue lakeshore

 Brave hummingbirds leave the north.

 Red and gold leaves swirl in airstreams

 Catch in the fur of a brown bear

The hair of red foxes

 And in my shaggy white hair.

 Migrations flow by but I will stay right here

 With the foxes and bears.