Airscape, Westbound, 20,000

dawn touching Eastern sky
few 
twinkling
starlike
lights
thin strips of cloud
above vast
hive
nested tombstones clustered 


crystalline stalagmites
multi million lives
jumbled and splattered
across thin borders
utter intermingling dreams
no space for bodies 
gently to move through life


smashing pushing
rushing shoving
writhing raging
ripping killing
loving
hugging
birthing 
dreaming
sighing dying crying screaming
all their noise
stilled in 
twilight


night 
yet
soothing
a dark continent