Sunday, August 13, 2023

The Butterfly

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Delicate as a soft spring breeze

Colourful as an evening sunset

She lifts her wings in a maiden flight

Leaving her milkweed birth-home

Pirouetting through the cloud-shaded

Landscape of the rain-sodden forest

Briefly flirting with nearby vegetation

Until fatigue and need guides her to a

Burdock leaf beside the rushing stream

On the forest floor where bracken

Lies in full flush of late summer

And in the silence of the late afternoon

She repeatedly folds and unfolds her

Wings, a newborn drying her dress

Ready to take her place in the unknown.


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