High in the trees
After subterranean slumber
Your song exalts
Summer heat
I found you
By the path
Underfoot
Alone
Damp flesh
From exertion
I reached,
Pushed dust
Before you
Touched your cellophane wing
Alien life
Black body
Abandoned cigar butt
Hammerhead Eyes
Clear cape
Black ribbing
You climbed –
Tip, knuckle
Back of hand
Lunar landscape
Tentative
High stepping
Soft hairs
Sawgrass feet
Scrape, slide
Fall to earth
9/19/03 14:00, edits 9/19/03 18:40 – 19:50
Edits a combination of mine and input from Roberta Woods, particularly addition of second line about pupal stage and line about body like a cigar butt
– An earlier version than the one posted on February 15.
(Raymond A. Foss)
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