The Nightmare of the Butterfly

Monarch,
you are majestic.

Come fly around me
for just a while.

Let me catch you 
in a net
made of spider's web.

Let me pin you,
black-eyed
onto cloth
and then
show you off
until your colours fade.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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