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The Butterfly’s Tail Flickers In Blue Ember   1 comment

Gray Hairstreak on Desert Marigold — Image by kenne

So small—

and yet the marigold bends

as if honored.

The butterfly’s tail

flickers a blue ember.

I have lived long enough

to know

that such brightness

arrives without warning

and leaves the same way.

Still, it is here.

That is enough.

— kenne

Gray Hairstreak On Desert Marigold   3 comments

Gray Hairstreak On Desert Marigold — Image by Naturalist Bill Kaufman Taken In His Yard (April 2017)

Gray wings kiss gold bloom—

sunlight dances on fine threads,

stillness in motion.

Gray Hairstreak On Desert Marigold   1 comment

Gray Hairstreak on Desert Margold_my yard-20170404_0001_bil blogGray Hairstreak On Desert Marigold — Image by Naturalist Bill Kaufman

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature,
to be good, must, finally,

be the author’s experience worked out literally.

— Gore Vidal