Learning About Butterflies
I watched a caterpillar cross the road.
A fuzzy irresistible.
Not patient all the time, but
Focussing by discipline and fascination
(scared she’d be run over.
I was there to stop a car)
I watched as she
Dug into moss so slowly
That she tested me.
She dug by millimeters
Disappeared in/under…
Now I know a little more.
© Learning About Butterflies 5.6.2010 Circling Round Nature; On the Way to the Post; Arlene Corwin
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