Creation: a milky cloud under a full moon in July, thousands of groupers.
A mountain gorilla in the rain, eyed closed as if to know it in his breath,
droplets beading over lined face. Polar bear sisters cool in summer waters,
wonders of affection, chimpanzee leaning up to kiss a woman’s cheek,
another curled in her lap, while under a bed a spider the size of a hand
watches her newly hatched brood. Ravens in courtship sing to one another,
passing soft warbles and gifts between them: moss, twigs, stones from
beak to beak over the frozen ground. There’s a warbler in the sunflowers:
listen, she weaves a cradle for her eggs.
Inspired by an article at My Modern Met about the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards