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Spring is here!

5/6/2013

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Brown elfin butterflies may look like a leaf fragment whirling in the breeze above a sunny road. But look again! This tiny creature flies at mid day on a calm spring day. Time to start posting again  and share with my new camera.

 Life List, April 25

  My first-ever Little Brown Elfin

– tiny butterfly  like a flake of leaf

skirts the corner of my vision

                                                                                 barricading the path in the cool afternoon.

                                                                                Brown little bear, it slowly slanted,

                                                                                careened over like a windsurfer letting down the sail,

                                                                                 like a cat warming  in the wan sun.

                                                                                 Like a movie star an elfin is much smaller

                                                                                 than you'd think and so much better looking

                                                                                than its picture. I’ll never forget our meeting

                                                                                though I was too excited to ask it

                                                                                for its autograph or use my camera.


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