Once native to the Great Plains,

following the vast herds of bison,
nestling into the prairie grass
behind the boundless herds to feast
on the leaping, the buzzing,
the winging insects stirred up
in the shaggy creatures’ lumbering wake,
now stranded in pockets of invasive,
short-cropped, uncanny green,
inhabited by bug killer and songbird nests
they must colonize to survive.