Orange Butterflies
(Monarch Butterflies)
Brittle ochre leaves…
No – sinewy butterflies,
waiting through winter!
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Orange butterflies,
tiny, tender, untiring,
crossing continents.
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A swift golden cloud:
a million bright butterflies
following their stars.
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Christina Egan © 2016
Monarch butterflies cluster in Santa Cruz, California.
Photograph by Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia Commons.