Thirst

[Apache]

The dark and oily blood of dinosaurs
coagulates remote in desert bores

suckled by the gnattish maws of platforms.
Pumped into the sky to burn, the warmth

of prehistoric heartbeats melts the ice
to water palm trees. Larva plump like rice

in stagnant swamps. Mosquitoes, long and thin,
shake the air off of their wings in ecstasy. 

The siren clout of dino-blood's temptation
draws them from the tropics. Led astray, 

bearing minuscule conquistadors:
protozoans wave their whip-like flags

and pray in chapels made of chitin.
Marooned where prey is bitten

by the insect's thirsty drilling,
history repeats

in miniature.