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.
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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