Black Butterflies

first, it was a single entity an unbrilliant black charcoal sloe female by identity faded shadowy shades of stygian dark slipping in and flitting flower to flower making mark second, two came dancing like onyx layers colors changed sabled ebony players deep dark obsidian pitch male pipeline swallowtails spotty blue indigo sails The final dance black butterflies in the last summer cries separate goodbyes. In apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker struggled tragically in search of love and a sense of home. Portrayed in the 2011 movie Black Butterflies