Turtle Island salt despairing

they sang!
a wildling duet of mother and son;
a listening daughter.
hear me, sapphique! and her heart, for a moment, was lighter;
do you hear them?
they are free
born into open air and wheeling salt, to the formless void of the ocean, to the air festooned with seabirds.
born free.
chani sang more loudly.