Monarch Sighting, No Kings Day




I wanted to cry. Stretched ahead and behind along the street, the bobbing line of us. Those at the fore, crossing at the stoplight where police stood guard. Those at the rear, not caught up yet, strung across a bridge into the unseeable distance.

The joy, because we were many.

Past the entrance to the rally grounds, past the clotheslines holding blue butterflies, the crowd milling. Butterflies and butterflies, hundreds pinned on. Each a somebody snitched from here, snared, shunted to some hell.

Soon the time for speeches, songs. Loud and loud.

On a grass patch not teeming with bodies, a woman opening her wings, floating them up into the blue. Spreading, enveloping, spreading, enveloping. The child so wrapped and held would know only safety.

Would for that bliss.

 




 

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  1. AnonymousOctober 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM

    Yes the only monarchs we need and want!!

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