D079

once a year, before the summer rains set in, before the spillway near the river fills, just when the fresh green shoots make their way up through last year's dried inland mud, the yound salt flies arise.  They dance in the setting sun and in the morning dew.  It's time to mate.  It's time be considered.  This is where she has come.  This is where she is in her life.  She is new, too, she thought.  She is young and budding, too.  It is time to be considered.