Flight patterns

A black and white photo of a field with a power line on poles heading off into the horizon. The sky is dark across the top and grey towards horizon line.

They come at dusk 

as dark and graceful blurs 

erratic butterflies 

at supersonic speed, 

the order Chiroptera,   

feeding on buzzing clouds 

of pestilence and human 

ignorance for we fear 

what we cannot see 

and what we do not know 

listens and finds its way 

through the night.