Ismim Putera

In this sexually dimorphic species,

only the males cry out loud

 

at midnight

calling rains with thundered voice

 

their eyes bulged with crystalline images

of a starry sky

 

reminding them of their ancestral skin

Only the males would cry

 

with their back straight and toes

pointing towards the edge of the pale moon

 

rain clouds whorl along the horizon

mimicking another smaller moon

 

and yet, still, only the males would cry;

they funnel their lipoid lips

 

end to end, forming a tube to 

transfer whispery wheeze;

 

rain droplets pelt on their heads

and bounce back to hit the moon at dawn;

 

the pale moon cracks again

and thus, only the males cry

 

females uncoil their fins and

arms, exposing cotton-like dreams

 

in this sexually dimorphic species

only the males cry and fly